Legal Schnauzer posts a summary of Don Siegelman’s disturbing new biography which “promises an inside look at perhaps the most notorious political prosecution in U.S. history.” The Schnauzer writes: In a searing political memoir, former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman explodes the myth of an impartial U.S. justice system. He should know. Arguably the most successful and promising politician in modern Alabama history, his three-decade career in public service ran afoul of Republican opponents who used the federal judicial system to take him out of contention in Alabama and nationally. Siegelman ultimately was sentenced to 88 months in federal prison and served five years, with long stretches in solitary confinement during […]
