Wisconsin State Journal:
I wonder, though, what role the Justice Department's recent revelations of hackery have to do with this. Beyond the obvious wrongful conviction, how bad was the miscarriage of justice? Hopefully we'll get some answers.
Anywho, it's nice to see Georgia Thompson, and therefore Jim Doyle, cleared of a corruption charge.
In a stunning reversal, a federal court of appeals struck down a state worker's fraud conviction that Wisconsin Republicans used in efforts to paint Gov. Jim Doyle's administration as corrupt.I'd join the bandwagon of lefty blogs calling for an apology from Republicans that used the original conviction to rail against Jim Doyle and call him corrupt but they were just doing what we would've been doing had, say, Tommy Thompson's staffer been conviced of a similar thing.
Attorneys on both sides of the case said the three-judge panel likely overruled the trial jury's conviction of former state purchasing officer Georgia Thompson within hours of oral arguments due to a simple lack of evidence.
I wonder, though, what role the Justice Department's recent revelations of hackery have to do with this. Beyond the obvious wrongful conviction, how bad was the miscarriage of justice? Hopefully we'll get some answers.
Anywho, it's nice to see Georgia Thompson, and therefore Jim Doyle, cleared of a corruption charge.
