Montgomery, AL – Retired U.S. District Judge U.W. Clemon has asked Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman.
Clemon told Holder in a recent letter that the case brought by federal prosecutors in Birmingham against Siegelman was the ``most unfounded criminal case'' he ever presided over.
The judge said he did not have personal knowledge of the circumstances surrounding Siegelman's prosecution and conviction in a government corruption case in Montgomery. But Clemon was critical of the earlier attempt to prosecute Siegelman in a mail fraud case. Prosecutors dropped the case after Clemon told them there was no basis for a conspiracy charge.
U.S. Attorney Alice Martin of Birmingham said she disagreed with Clemon's comments and called them ``inappropriate.''
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