Iowa – Lawyers for Reb Sholom Mordechai ben Rivkah Rubashkin today formally asked the U.S. Supreme Court to shorten his sentence or order a new trial.
The attorneys, Paul Clement and Nathan Lewin, said that the prison term is exceedingly long for a first-time, nonviolent offender.
Justices can either take the case or let stand an appeals court ruling from September that upheld the conviction and absurd 27-year prison term.
The lawyers argued that U.S. District Judge Linda Reade, who presided over the trial, could not be impartial because they uncovered evidence showing she met repeatedly with investigators planning the raid.
The Supreme Court receives approximately 9,000 such requests each year, They grant about just seventy of them.
Are are asked to daven for Sholom Mordechai ben Rivka.
{Casriel Bauman-Matzav.com Newscenter}
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Event the the justices on the SCOTUS are suspectible to being influenced by popluar demand. the more we publicize this case and the importance it has not just for Sholom Rubashkin but for the entire country, that a first time offender with white collar crimes should bE punished in such a severe manner. Let’s start an online pettion with Change.org or on a similar platfrom, and through social media like twitter and facebook. If we make this story importAnt to the people in this country it can become important to the SCOTUS. Let’s get moving!!!
Ain lonu al me le’heshaein, ella al Avinu shebashomayim
27 years is a mockery of justice. I hope they will be matzliach.