At 1:30 p.m. today, in the Thomas Eagleton Federal Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri, an appeal will be argued before three judges on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in one of the most bitterly contested and controversial criminal trials in many years.
The appeal—United States v. Sholom Rubashkin—involves Rubashkin’s conviction of multiple counts of bank fraud, for which he was sentenced to 27 years imprisonment. His trial followed the 2008 raid—the biggest in U.S. history—by more than 600 federal Immigration and Customs agents (ICE) on Rubashkin’s kosher meat-packing plant in Postville, Iowa and the arrest of 389 undocumented workers, mostly Mexican. Rubashkin was arrested for immigration-related crimes, but re-arrested and tried on the financial crimes. Whether Rubashkin is guilty and deserves the astonishingly harsh sentence are pertinent issues that will be argued on his appeal. But just as pertinent—maybe more so—is the conduct of the judges, trial and appellate, called upon to administer justice in his case.
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Judge Reade is a machsheifa. She is trying her best to sway the judges by sitting on cases today with them.
May he have Hatzlacha. Shouldnt Tehillim be said en masse?
Chafetz Chaim Foundation will have a Tehilim teleconferrence during proceedings 718 258 2008
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There are minyanim at at many kivrei Tzadikim
We should all pray that he is released today and at the very least his sentence reduced to time served!!
Does it mean they will make a decision today if he gets a re trial or not? Or are they just listening to the arguement and will decide later?
@torahtotty The most we can hope for as a result of today’s proceedings is a retrial.
Machsom L’Fi between 2 and 4 pm today.
Everyone please be mekabel not to talk during davening,call an unaffiliatied Jew once a week and try to help an older single!