Theos-Talk Archives (July 2002 Message tt00020)

Steve Stubbs wrote:
> --- Bart Lidofsky <bartl@sprynet.com> wrote:
> > Which means that the only way he is
> > going to be freed is
> > not through mercy but through justice, through the
> > fact that everybody,
> > no matter how much we might like or dislike them,
> > should be considered
> > equal under the law.
> 
> That statement confuses me. Why should Pollard, a
> confessed spy who was motivated entirely by money
> greed, be treated differently than Aldrich Ames or
> John Walker or any other spy who did the same thing
> for identical reasons? It appears from here that he
> has in fact received precisely equal treatment in the
> sense of getting an equal outcome.

Because he made a plea bargain, which was legally binding, which the
prosecution and judge illegally voided, without giving Pollard a chance
to change his plea. The only reason why the decision wasn't overturned
immediately was because there was a 10 day deadline to appeal, and
Pollard's own lawyer sabotaged the case by deliberately failing to file
the appeal.

Bart Lidofsky