Judge Reade applied the federal sentencing guidelines with unusual methodical rigor. She analyzed every provision and subprovision that might conceivably apply to Rubashkin. Many overlapped with one another, effectively punishing him multiple times for the same conduct. Judge Reade also considered certain charges that were dropped. And she punished Rubashkin in part for testifying on his own behalf, accusing him of perjury.
That’s not all that went wrong in Judge Reade’s courtroom…
The May 4 filing of six amicus briefs calling on the Supreme Court to grant the Rubashkin case a hearing has triggered a spate of articles from prominent legal personalities supporting the cause, with several focusing on the prosecutorial and judicial misconduct in the case…
The latest example is a full-court press that has been mounted in a high-profile immigration case, aimed at making it impossible for the justices – and their law clerks – to ignore…
Former Solicitor General Seth Waxman has filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to accept cert in the case of Sholom Rubashkin, an executive at a kosher meatpacking plant convicted in a multimillion-dollar bank fraud that came to light after a large-scale immigration raid.
The brief is one of six amicus briefs urging the court to accept the case…
In a sign that the Rubashkin case continues to roil the highest ranks of the nation’s legal community, six amicus briefs from prestigious legal organizations and renowned legal authorities have called on the Supreme Court to grant the Rubashkin case a hearing…
Supporters of jailed kosher meat CEO Sholom Rubashkin received a boost this week in the form of a blog post by a senior editor for the online magazine Slate.
The post, by Slate’s Emily Bazelon, provides rare secular media backing for Rubashkin…
But judges aren’t just supposed to be impartial, they’re supposed to make sure they don’t create the appearance of bias. Wouldn’t it be better, as a general rule, if judges who meet regularly with prosecutors in advance of a cascade of high-profile indictments didn’t hear the cases that follow?…
On June 4, the government is scheduled to respond to petitions for a writ of certiorari in the case of Sholom Rubashkin. It’s a writ that should clearly be granted by the Supreme Court…