Bias from the Associated Press ?!? NEVER!!!11oneone!!!eleventyuno!!!1

[miskie]

Dismissal will erase Stevens verdict but not facts

By MATT APUZZO and NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writers Matt Apuzzo And Nedra Pickler, Associated Press Writers – 50 mins ago

WASHINGTON – If, as expected Tuesday, a federal judge agrees to dismiss corruption charges against former Sen. Ted Stevens, it will wipe away the Alaska Republican's conviction and complete an embarrassing unraveling of the Justice Department's case.

But the dismissal will not declare Stevens innocent. Nor will it rewrite the facts of a case in which Stevens took thousands of dollars in favors and freebies from wealthy friends.

Stevens, who was the Senate's longest-serving Republican, was convicted in October of seven counts of concealing home renovations and other gifts from Senate financial documents.

Attorney General Eric Holder decided to dismiss the case after discovering that a key witness had made inconsistent statements and that the value of Stevens' renovations might have been far less than prosecutors contended in court. It was the final straw for a prosecution team that repeatedly mishandled witnesses and evidence.

Only in ObamaWorld is a trial where the accused are 'declared innocent' -- Oh wait.. that probably applies to those considered enemies of the ObamaState, which any Republican is.

To remind the AP - people in the Untied States are 'innocent until proven guilty' not 'guilty until declared innocent'

[Chris]

I saw the same thing on NBC (?) the other evening.  The news reader said the conviction was overturned and pronounced him guilty in the same breath. 

Journalism is for people too dumb to make it as an English major.