US Attorneys Fallout Seeps Into the Courts

For months, the Justice Department and Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales have taken political heat for the purge of eight US attorneys last year. Now the fallout is starting to hit the department in courtrooms around the country. Defense lawyers in a growing number of cases are raising questions about the motives of government lawyers who have brought charges against their clients. In court papers, they are citing the furor over the US attorney dismissals as evidence that their cases may have been infected by politics.

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