Sholom Rubashkin's Attorney Guy R. Cook Has Extensive & Wide-ranging Courtroom Experience

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http://lesliebrodie.blog.co.uk/2011/06/21/united-state-of-america-v-sholom-ru...

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United State of America vs. Sholom Rubashkin

by lesliebrodie Pro @ 21/06/2011 -- 19.36:17

*By Debbie Maimon

Lending serious weight to calls for a retrial in the Rubashkin case, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) has filed a sharply worded amicus curiae brief with the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, urging the court to vacate Sholom Mordechai's conviction. ...

-Threat Of Retaliation-

Legal experts who have studied Reade's (U.S. District Chief Judge Linda Rae Reade, Northern District of Iowa) Sentencing Order note her propensity to turn her back on facts she doesn't like, and to make use of veiled threats of retaliation.

"She lacks the intellectual nimbleness to engage her legal adversaries on the merits of the argument, and is reduced to brandishing the key weapon in her arsenal—her power to impose excessively harsh jail terms," one critic said.

He cited a telling example: "She embedded a threat in the Sentencing Order designed to intimidate the defendant from appealing. The threat is couched in legal language but its intent is clear. "In effect, it's a warning that 'should an appeals court send this case back to me for re-sentencing, I will impose an even higher sentence.'"

That threat did not go unnoticed by the appellate lawyers. The appeal argues that the insinuation in the Sentencing Order itself is the strongest argument for taking Reade off the case in the event of re-sentencing.

Judge Reade's preemptive refusal, even if she would be found to have erred, to entertain any notion of reducing Sholom Mordechai's prison sentence, underscores the bias and rigidity that has characterized her conduct in the case all along, notes the Appeal.

Her own words make it mandatory for "re-sentencing to go before a different judge with an open mind and a willingness to abide by this Court's mandate."

37 Congressmen Have Petitioned Holder

With the heightening of legal and congressional protest against the perversion of justice in a dusty corner of Iowa, a growing list of congressmen are petitioning Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the Rubashkin case.

To date, 37 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have sent letters. Some of the most recent ones come from Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Tom McClintock (R-CA), and Steve Israel (D-NY), the 5th highest ranking Democrat in the congressional leadership.

Many of these letters protest the judge's secret meetings with prosecutors in the months before the raid, as well as the unreasonably severe sentence meted out to Sholom Mordechai.

While Holder has thus far refused to become involved in the case, the pressure continues to build. Six months ago, the idea of certain organizations throwing their support behind Sholom Rubashkin's right to a new trial would have been laughed at. The changing landscape greatly boosts hopes for positive developments in the case in the very near future. ...

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