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Associated Press - May 21, 2009 6:04 PM ET
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Retired U.S. District Judge U.W. Clemon has asked Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman.
Clemon told Holder in a recent letter that the case brought by federal prosecutors in Birmingham against Siegelman was the "most unfounded criminal case" he ever presided over.
The judge said he did not have personal knowledge of the circumstances surrounding Siegelman's prosecution and conviction in a government corruption case in Montgomery. But Clemon was critical of the earlier attempt to prosecute Siegelman in a mail fraud case. Prosecutors dropped the case after Clemon told them there was no basis for a conspiracy charge.
U.S. Attorney Alice Martin of Birmingham said she disagreed with Clemon's comments and called them "inappropriate."
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