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...term. The stark comparison between their punishments is the basis of a petition sent this week by Lindh's lawyers to President Bush and the Justice Department, calling for his sentence to be commuted. "This is a simple cry for justice with regard to one person," Lindh attorney James Brosnahan told a San Francisco press conference...
...predominantly black and Hispanic Phoenix precinct in 1964. Rehnquist issued a blanket denial that he had challenged the qualifications of minority voters in that period. Democrats found 14 witnesses who swore they had seen Rehnquist doing exactly that; additionally, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Phoenix, James Brosnahan, testified that Rehnquist was not being truthful when he said he was at the polls merely to help "arbitrate disputes" on Election Day 1962. Nonetheless, the FBI could not corroborate the charges when it looked into the matter for the Senate Judiciary Committee before the 1986 confirmation. When asked that year whether...
...case against him had its troubles too. It was likely to be overshadowed by testimony about how Lindh's confessions may have been coerced by the humiliating conditions of his military confinement--bound, blindfolded, strapped to a stretcher and placed inside a steel container. So on July 12, when Brosnahan and his team came to the courthouse in Alexandria for pretrial motions, prosecutors asked for a meeting to discuss ways of avoiding a trial. Later, Brosnahan learned that U.S. Attorneys Paul McNulty and Randy Bellows had already paved the way for a deal...
...most vocal of Lindh's early critics. Rumsfeld agreed to the idea of a plea. Next, a Justice Department lawyer spoke to White House counsel Al Gonzalez, who briefed President Bush. But while the top officials of the U.S. government were ready to strike a deal, Lindh was not. Brosnahan says his client wanted assurances that he could continue his Islamic studies in prison and be given space for the five daily prayers required by his faith...
Pentagon officials, following Rumsfeld's orders, insisted that Lindh retract his claim of being mistreated by the military. Brosnahan says his client never felt he was intentionally abused by guards, though several took snapshots of one another next to his bound form. Defense lawyers wanted the charges alleging ties to al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups dropped. Says Brosnahan: "We were not going to sign anything that he was a terrorist...