* prosecutors who withheld evidence in the Senator Stevens case receive “pathetic” 15 days and 45 days suspension … Misconduct by prosecutors is a cancer on the American justice system … penalties like these will do nothing to correct it, and innocent defe

****** ****** as reported in the NYT (5/26/12) … The legal team that defended Senator Ted Stevens in his corruption trial has harshly criticized as “laughable” and “pathetic” the punishment that the Justice Department handed out to two prosecutors found to have engaged in reckless professional misconduct in the case. “No reasonable person could conclude that [...]