Theos-Talk Archives (July 2002 Message tt00016)

One day at a future date, we all will find out why in spite of all the 
attempts by various Political Leaders of Government of Israel at the 
highest levels, no one was able to get Pollard released from Prison.


At 03:38 PM 7/2/02 -0400, Bart Lidofsky wrote:
> By the way, on an unrelated note, I finally read some information 
> that
> puts the Jonathan Pollard case into perspective. Apparently, he and his
> wife came out with a lot of public, anti-American statements in between
> his guilty plea and sentencing, which alienated not only the
> prosecution, but his own lawyer. So, when the prosecution illegally
> voided the plea bargain, his lawyer purposely sabotaged his case by not
> filing the appeal in the legally required time (and, in what is truly a
> case of an unjust law, there is NO excuse that is legally acceptable for
> filing an appeal late, even if it is the result of criminal collusion
> between the prosecution and the defense). In other words, Jonathan
> Pollard got a life sentence not because of anti-Semitism or secret
> agendas, but because of a combination of technicalities in the law and
> the fact that he was a first-class jerk. While this information comes
> from his current lawyer, I find this MUCH more believable than any of
> the other stories I have heard.