"President Obama: Please restore justice and pardon my dad!"

[midnight]

Gov. Don Siegelman was the 51st Governor of Alabama, serving from 1999 to 2003. He served in Alabama in public office for 26 years and is the only person in the history of the state to be elected to serve in all four of the top statewide elected positions: Secretary of State, Attorney General, Lieutenant Governor and Governor.

My dad was wrongfully convicted in 2007 in a case that Pace Law Professor Bennett Gershman called "one of the most egregiously bad faith prosecutions by the Justice Department ever.” Numerous public servants such as Al Gore, John Kerry, and Wesley Clark believe my father was wrongly prosecuted and wrongly convicted.

The American Trial Lawyer Magazine has called Dad “America's #1 Political Prisoner." The New York Times said my dad was charged with something that has never even been considered a crime in America, and CBS’ 60 Minutes reported that the prosecution team coached key witness Nick Bailey more than 70 times and offered him a deal to testify against my father.

Conservative columnist George Will expressed in The Washington Post, “Everyone who cares about the rule of law should hope the Supreme Court agrees to hear Don Siegelman’s appeal….today’s confusion and the resulting prosecutorial discretion kill the exercise of Constitutional right, of political participation and can imprison people unjustly.”http://www.change.org/petitions/president-obama-please-restore-justice-and-pardon-my-dad

[Tribetime]

1. keep k/r

[freshwest]

2. +1

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3. knr

n/t

[Cha]

4. I signed the other day.. I hope

that the President is able to do something about Don Siegelman's Freedom. So glad his daughter, Dana, has written such a compelling letter for his release.

Many more sigs are needed..

[Ken Burch]

5. Why hasn't Obama just pardoned Siegelman already?

It's not as if anybody who thinks Siegelman is guilty is ever going to consider voting Democratic. And it's not as if "the independents" are rabidly convinced that Siegelman got what was coming, either.

[Ken Burch]

6. signed

n/t.

[Rhiannon12866]

7. K&R! Already signed, but I can still

[midnight]

8. Thanks to those who signed and send this link to others too...

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[HiPointDem]

9. kr