2nd editorial

Ted stevens, the former Alaskan Republican senator, who was charged with failing to report hundreds of thousands of dollars worth in gifts from an alaskan oil firm, has the Justice department asking a judge to dismiss his conviction. The government will also not choose to retry him. The government calculated that all of his gifts are worth an excess of $ 250,000. The reason he will walk free is because of Gross breaches of law and fairness by prosecutors. An agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who worked on the case also recently alleged that prosecutors had been willfully withholding pertinent evidence from the defense team.