The Siegelman case is all over the media — although conveniently everyone has left out the part about Simpson’s house being burned down and her being run off the road. Why have they left that little detail out of these stories, I wonder? Ah, that liberal media! Up to their old tricks again, huh?

Anyway, here’s a nice link to a summary of the case. A thirty year sentence would be longer than the average time served by a murderer in Alabama. Apparently the case involved some circus-like number of charges and only a couple of them stuck.  Read more