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...Bush Administration pursued selective justice in Alabama. Leura Canary, the U.S. Attorney whose office drove Siegelman's prosecution, is married to Bill Canary, Alabama's most prominent political operative and a longtime friend of Karl Rove's. In May an Alabama lawyer and Republican activist named Dana Jill Simpson gave a notarized statement that she heard Canary say Rove "had spoken with the Department of Justice" about "pursuing" Siegelman, with help from two of Alabama's U.S. Attorneys. Bill Canary called her charge "outrageous," and other alleged participants in the phone conversation issued similar denials. (The White House declined...
...Bush Administration pursued selective justice in Alabama. Leura Canary, the U.S. Attorney whose office drove Siegelman's prosecution, is married to Bill Canary, Alabama's most prominent political operative and a longtime friend of Karl Rove's. In May an Alabama lawyer and Republican activist named Dana Jill Simpson gave a notarized statement that she heard Canary say Rove "had spoken with the Department of Justice" about "pursuing" Siegelman, with help from two of Alabama's U.S. Attorneys. Bill Canary called her charge "outrageous," and other alleged participants in the phone conversation issued similar denials. (The White House declined...
...sophomore, wearing a circuit board sewn onto the front of her black hooded sweatshirt, was arrested at gunpoint Friday morning at Logan International Airport after police mistook the device for an explosive. The student, Star A. Simpson, was charged with disorderly conduct and possession of a hoax device, according to Assistant Suffolk District Attorney Wayne Margolis. Simpson first raised suspicions when she approached a MassPort employee working in Terminal C to ask about the status of an arriving flight. After briefly meandering through the terminal, Simpson exited and was confronted by Massachusetts State Police troopers wielding submachine guns, State Police...
More than one prosecutor in Miami acknowledges that no matter what Simpson does, he makes Galanter look good. "He was a nobody until he represented O.J. on a case that never should have gone to trial," says one Miami-based prosecutor who asked not to be named, referring to the road-rage case, adding "almost anybody could have won that." Since then, Galanter has parlayed his connection to Simpson into regular appearances on TV talk shows analyzing a variety of criminal cases, including the Kobe Bryant rape accusation and the Scott Peterson murder trial...
While Galanter gets most ink from his representation of Simpson, the Philadelphia native actually started out as a state prosecutor in Florida. Galanter honed his trial skills at the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office under Janet Reno. That's also where he met his wife, Elyse. She was a court reporter in former Judge Tom Scott's courtroom and that's where Galanter had been assigned as well. They've been together 21 years, married for eight...