We are preparing to file an appeal to the U S Supreme Court as well, based largely on the following legal issues:
54 former Attorneys General both Democrats and
Republicans said the 11th Circuit's ruling in the Siegelman case means
"... a prosecutor has the power to indict and convict any politician and
any donor whenever a donation was made and the politician took action
consistent with the donor's desire, while aware of said desire."
Keep in mind the prosecutors never claimed that Don Siegelman put a penny in
his pocket.
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The U.S. Supreme Court made it clear in McCormick vs. U.S. (1991) that it takes an actual explicit quid pro quo agreement before the line between politics and crime is crossed. In the Siegelman case, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals said that juries may infer such an agreement, from the minds and actions of the elected official and the contributor...the opposite of explicit.
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