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Alice Martin is the United States Attorney for the
U. S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama. She was
nominated by George W. Bush and has served since
September 29, 2001.[1] She
previously ran as a Republican candidate in two failed
elections.
Martin tendered her resignation from office in June 2009, five
months after the inauguration of Democratic President Barack Obama.
[2]
She has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Vanderbilt University and is a
Registered Nurse. She worked as a nurse during law school and
received her Juris Doctorate in 1981 from the University of
Mississippi.[3]
Controversy
Martin has been criticized for her involvement in the
prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.[4][5][6][7]
Martin was also criticized and investigated for perjury in
Brown v. Ashcroft, which dealt with a FOIA request
concerning Martin firing a black assistant attorney.[8]
The case was decided by Fuller, who served as judge in the
Siegelman case.[8]
Currently the Justice Department's Office of
Professional Responsibility is investigating her for misconduct
in two cases including the Siegelman and Axion Corp..[9]
The Axion Corp. complaint "says Martin and two of her deputies
allegedly told defense lawyers that their goal was to put the
company owner out of business whether or not he was convicted."[10] Her
case against Axion was thrown out at trial and the Department of
Justice was ordered to pay the costs of the defendants.[9]
She has also been accused of getting a critic, employed by University of Alabama
at Birmingham, fired.[11]
Martin denies this.[11]
Martin has also recently been involved in the 2 year college
investigation in Alabama, including the indictment of State
Legislators. This set of cases has been very politically
controversial. Martin has been accused by some of leaking
information about these cases to media outlets.
References
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accessdate =2008-05-17 (2002). "Presidential Nomination:
Alice Martin". White
House. http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/aln/attorney.html.
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Gordon, Robert K. (June 16, 2009) "U.S. Attorney Alice Martin of
Birmingham announces resignation." Birmingham News
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"Presidential Nomination:
Alice Martin". White
House. 2002. http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/aln/attorney.html. Retrieved
2008-05-17.
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Horton, Scott (2007-08-06). "The Pork Barrel World of
Judge Mark Fuller". Harper's. http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000762. Retrieved
2008-05-17.
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"Did Ex-Alabama Governor Get
A Raw Deal?". CBS
News. 2008-02-24. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/21/60minutes/main3859830.shtml. Retrieved
2008-05-17.
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"Chairman Conyers Releases Jill Simpson Transcript
on the Prosecution of former Alabama Governor Siegelman". House Judiciary Committee. 2007-10-10. http://speaker.house.gov/blog/?p=833. Retrieved
2008-05-17.
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"Selective Justice in
Alabama?". Time magazine. 2007-10-04. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1668220,00.html. Retrieved
2008-05-17.
- ^ a
b
Horton, Scott (Sept 2007). "The Alice Martin Perjury
Inquiry". Harper's. http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/09/hbc-90001140. Retrieved
2008-07-16.
- ^ a
b
"Feds knock; a business is
lost". USA Today.
July 15, 2008. http://www.usatoday.com/money/smallbusiness/2008-07-09-axion-blackhawk-latifi-martin_N.htm. Retrieved
2008-05-17.
- ^
"U.S. Attorney Martin
Investigated by Ethics Watchdog for 2 Prosecutions". ABA Journal. July 15,
2008. http://www.abajournal.com/news/us_attorney_martin_investigated_by_ethics_watchdog_for_2_prosecutions/. Retrieved
2008-05-17.
- ^ a
b
"Alabama US Attorney denies
any involvement in university editor's termination". Rawstory.
July 11, 2008. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Alabama_bloggers_firing_raises_troubling_questions_0709.html. Retrieved
2008-05-17.
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