JayMatt -“@Health
Try reading the official court documents, not the articles in the media. You might learn something”
Look, I’m not a lawyer; but are you a lawyer or a law student?
I’m not going to repeat my comment to you I made before, but you definitely are showing bias towards the Gov.’s side. What makes you think I just read the articles in the media that you so hauntingly claim? Maybe you should read all the legal documents in his defense before you boldy claim that the Gov. is right and his punishment was just? Ya’know many Goyim have come out publically that this is an injustice and they don’t even have a Chiyuv to be Dan s/o L’caf Zecus.
From a former lawyer of Pollard’s:
“6. The Government’s Breach of the Plea Agreement:
You agree in your memorandum that there are “legitimate questions” regarding the government’s conduct at the time of sentencing in conjunction with its plea bargain. However, you selectively omit a full discussion of the issue and the pertinence of it to Mr. Pollard’s request for a commutation of his sentence.
The fact is that the government violated its plea bargain with Mr. Pollard in several fundamental respects. Nearly everyone who has examined the circumstances agrees with that conclusion. Indeed, this situation was severely questioned by the federal appellate court that reviewed Mr. Pollard’s sentence. Despite the government’s agreement in exchange for Mr. Pollard’s plea of guilty to temper its rhetoric at the tide of sentencing, not to seek a life sentence, and to point out that Pollard’s cooperation with the government had been valuable, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that the government had engaged in “hard-nosed dealings,” Pollard v. United States, 939 F.2d 10110, 1030, cert. denied, 113 S. Ct. 322 (1992), and that the government’s conduct was “problematic” and “troublesome.” Id. at 1026. Dissenting Judge Stephen Williams concluded that the government violated material terms of Mr. Pollard’s plea agreement, resulting in a “fundamental miscarriage of justice.” Id. at 1032. And the government’s forceful, bitter and antagonistic rhetoric produced the very life sentence it had agreed not to seek. Although the courts declined for technical reasons to set aside Mr. Pollard’s sentence, there are no such constraints on the President’s constitutional power to commute Mr. Pollard’s sentence and thereby to redress the injustice of a sentence of life in prison despite the government’s promise not to seek such a sentence.
NJCRAC’s characterization of the facts is revealing. It says that Pollard’s claim of a government breach of the plea bargain is “not entirely a myth”. This is a very peculiar choice of words to describe an audacious, deliberate and manifest injustice.”