- Alice Martin
Alice Martin is the
United States Attorney for the U. S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama. She was nominated byGeorge W. Bush and has served since September 29, 2001. [cite news | url=http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/aln/attorney.html | title=Presidential Nomination: Alice Martin | publisher=White House |date= 2002 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17] She previously ran as a Republican canidate in two failed elections.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 theUniversity of Mississippi . [cite news | url=http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/aln/attorney.html | title=Presidential Nomination: Alice Martin | publisher=White House |date= 2002 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17]Martin has been criticized for her involvement in the prosecution of former Alabama Governor
Don Siegelman . [cite news | url=http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000762 | title=The Pork Barrel World of Judge Mark Fuller | publisher=Harper's |date= 2007-08-06 | first=Scott | last=Horton | accessdate =2008-05-17] [cite news | url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/21/60minutes/main3859830.shtml | title=Did Ex-Alabama Governor Get A Raw Deal? | publisher=CBS News |date= 2008-02-24 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17] [cite news | url=http://speaker.house.gov/blog/?p=833 | title=Chairman Conyers Releases Jill Simpson Transcript on the Prosecution of former Alabama Governor Siegelman | publisher=House Judiciary Committee |date= 2007-10-10 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17] [cite news | url=http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1668220,00.html | title=Selective Justice in Alabama? | publisher=Time magazine |date= 2007-10-04 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17]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.cite news | url=http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/09/hbc-90001140 | title=The Alice Martin Perjury Inquiry | publisher=
Harper's |date= Sept 2007 | first=Scott | last=Horton | accessdate =2008-07-16] The case was decided by Fuller who served as judge in the Siegelman case.Currently the Justice Department’s
Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating her for misconduct in two cases including the Siegelman andAxion Corp. .cite news | url=http://www.usatoday.com/money/smallbusiness/2008-07-09-axion-blackhawk-latifi-martin_N.htm | title=Feds knock; a business is lost | publisher=USA Today |date= July 15, 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17] 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." [cite news | url=http://www.abajournal.com/news/us_attorney_martin_investigated_by_ethics_watchdog_for_2_prosecutions/ | title=U.S. Attorney Martin Investigated by Ethics Watchdog for 2 Prosecutions | publisher=ABA Journal |date= July 15, 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17] Her case against Axion was thrown out at trial and the Department of Justice was order to pay the costs of the defendants.She has also been accused of getting a critic, employed by
University of Alabama at Birmingham , fired.cite news | url=http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Alabama_bloggers_firing_raises_troubling_questions_0709.html | title=Alabama US Attorney denies any involvement in university editor's termination | publisher=Rawstory |date= July 11, 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17] Martin denies this.References
External links
* [http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/aln/attorney.html Alice H. Martin] from
United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
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