In the Wake of Sen. Ted Stevens, Will AG Holder Compassionately Release Paul Minor, Convicted Without Quid Pro Quo Proof?

In the Wake of Sen. Ted Stevens, Will AG Holder Compassionately Release Paul Minor, Convicted Without Quid Pro Quo Proof, to be with his dying wife of 41 years? He is, after all, the Democrat who was bagged in seemly circumstances, as Scott Horton described in his Harper's article, A Minor Injustice.

So it's a question of compassion that Paul Minor's attorney raises in the letter below to AG Eric Holder.

Hiram Eastland, Attorney for Paul Minor, wrote:

Attached please find an emergency furlough request I sent Attorney General Holder late yesterday. The Justice Department acknowledged receipt of the letter Friday evening. The letter requests the Department for an emergency furlough in light of the Fifth Circuit's recent Order. (See attached Order).

As recognized by the Fifth Circuit, Paul Minor is entitled to a furlough to be with his wife Sylvia in her last days.

The Department should provide its full support for this request first of because it's the right, decent and compassionate thing to do.

But the Department should also provide its support in light of the controversial conviction that allowed the jury to convict Paul Minor for
bribery without requiring quid pro quo proof.

I look forward to the Fifth Circuit tearing down the walls the Bush Justice Department built around Paul Minor's life by convicting him without the requirement of quid pro quo proof.

Similarly, the Justice Department should release Paul to be with his wife since the Department itself and Congress are investigating whether my clients Paul Minor and Governor Siegelman and others were politically prosecuted to begin with.

As indicated by Mrs. Minor's oncologist quoted in the attached letter and referenced by the Fifth Circuit Order, we're running out of time for the Justice Department to do the right thing.

Hiram Eastland
Eastland Law Offices

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