Alice Martin, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, is pictured to the left. Bob Martin of The Montgomery Independent reveals in my hometown paper, The Randolph Leader, some disturbing indications of heavy handed prosecutorial misconduct in the recent arrest of Representative Sue Schmitz, D-Toney.While I noted her arrest some days back, Mr. Martin's reporting is also worth noting. He relays one version of the events:
"The morning calm in the small town of Toney,located near Huntsville, was broken at 6:15 a.m. yesterday morning. A team of five FBI agents, accompanied by a prison matron, pounded on the door. When the man of the house answered, he was forced into the yard, shirtless in the early morning cold. The team had come for his wife, Sue Schmitz. She was dragged out of her bathroom, where she was taking a shower, handcuffed, breaking her flesh and scraping her wrists, and hustled off to prison."If this is how this arrest was handled, even more so if in fact her attorney had told Ms. Martin's office she'd willingly surrender, then shame on Alice Martin. Although Bob Martin mentioned her possible perjury issues, Scott Horton of Harper's also can add to our understanding of Alice Martin. The way the Bu$hCo DOJ has become so transparently political is of course the real story here. The allegation that she is one of Bill Canary's "girls" ready to "take care" of Don Siegelman plus her past record with Don continues to ring true for me.
Truly I do think of getting back in the lawyering game when I read of how the powerful and well connected do business. John Gunn
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