Not Guilty: The Unlawful Prosecution of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens

Written by one of the lead attorneys for U.S. Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, Not Guilty: The Unlawful Prosecution of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens describes the litigation before, during, and after the trial charging Stevens with corruption. Stevens was found guilty by a jury, but the judgment was immediately overturned following revelations of gross violations of Brady and other mi...

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Written by one of the lead attorneys for U.S. Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, Not Guilty: The Unlawful Prosecution of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens describes the litigation before, during, and after the trial charging Stevens with corruption. Stevens was found guilty by a jury, but the judgment was immediately overturned following revelations of gross violations of Brady and other misconduct by the prosecution team of the Public Integrity Section of the Department of Justice. The verdict, however, led to Stevens loss of his seat in the Senate. The book is instructive in its intricate detailing of defense strategies and prosecutorial missteps, particularly in regards to Brady discovery, and author Rob Cary notes that less-privileged defendants commonly face challenges similar to those in the Stevens trial. Cary also comments on the Schuelke Report, a special investigation of the Public Integrity Section ordered by the trial court and released in 2012. As a result of his experience during the trial, Cary prescribes a number of initiatives to level the playing field between criminal defendants and the government, particularly with respect to discovery, handling of witnesses, and ways to address prosecutorial misconduct.

Editorial Reviews
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The public learned of the outrageous prosecution of Senator Ted Stevens several years ago, but here are the astounding details. Defense attorney Rob Cary has done a public service with this exposé, a personal odyssey as layer after layer of official corruption is laid bare. It is a shocking, deeply sobering tale that every American worried about the concentration of power in the federal government should read and study. No one is safe, not even a powerful, well-connected legislator with 40 years in the United States Senate like Ted Stevens. --BOB WOODWARD, associate editor of The Washington Post and author of 17 national
This riveting account from one of our country's great lawyers shows how vulnerable any citizen can be to prosecutorial abuse. But for the heroic efforts of a talented legal team and a courageous judge, the Department of Justice s concealment of exculpatory evidence would never have come to light. If prosecutors can cheat a U.S. senator and get away with it (almost), they can cheat anyone. This must-read book makes a persuasive and urgent case for criminal justice reform that can be implemented tomorrow. --BARRY SCHECK, co-director of the Innocence Project
This is an extraordinarily important book, a must read not only for lawyers, but federal judges. Cary goes behind the stunning headlines prosecutors withholding exculpatory evidence, presenting false documents, a wrongful guilty verdict of a sitting senator. He shows how the prosecutors failures skewed the defense, the openings, the closings, the examination of witnesses. And the failures resound in white collar cases in particular where crimes are vaguely defined, where acts are characterized as illegal after the fact. No one reading this book will see Brady v. Maryland obligations as an abstraction, a technicality. And everyone should be chilled; if it could happen to a well-represented public figure, it could happen to any of us. --HON. NANCY GERTNER (Retired)

Editorial Reviews
Review
The public learned of the outrageous prosecution of Senator Ted Stevens several years ago, but here are the astounding details. Defense attorney Rob Cary has done a public service with this exposé, a personal odyssey as layer after layer of official corruption is laid bare. It is a shocking, deeply sobering tale that every American worried about the concentration of power in the federal government should read and study. No one is safe, not even a powerful, well-connected legislator with 40 years in the United States Senate like Ted Stevens. --BOB WOODWARD, associate editor of The Washington Post and author of 17 national
This riveting account from one of our country's great lawyers shows how vulnerable any citizen can be to prosecutorial abuse. But for the heroic efforts of a talented legal team and a courageous judge, the Department of Justice s concealment of exculpatory evidence would never have come to light. If prosecutors can cheat a U.S. senator and get away with it (almost), they can cheat anyone. This must-read book makes a persuasive and urgent case for criminal justice reform that can be implemented tomorrow. --BARRY SCHECK, co-director of the Innocence Project
This is an extraordinarily important book, a must read not only for lawyers, but federal judges. Cary goes behind the stunning headlines prosecutors withholding exculpatory evidence, presenting false documents, a wrongful guilty verdict of a sitting senator. He shows how the prosecutors failures skewed the defense, the openings, the closings, the examination of witnesses. And the failures resound in white collar cases in particular where crimes are vaguely defined, where acts are characterized as illegal after the fact. No one reading this book will see Brady v. Maryland obligations as an abstraction, a technicality. And everyone should be chilled; if it could happen to a well-represented public figure, it could happen to any of us. --HON. NANCY GERTNER (Retired)
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