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At least two prosecutors involved in the botched case of Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska could have been liable for prosecution themselves for failing to follow a judge’s order to turn over material to the defense, an outside legal expert told a House panel on Thursday.

Thanks to a two-and-a-half year independent investigation ordered by the judge in the case, Emmet Sullivan, and finally released several weeks ago, we now know how prosecutors won Stevens' conviction: they cheated.

Supporters of the late Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, held a rally in Anchorage Wednesday, calling for accountability for the flawed corruption case against him.

There was no trial for the Ted Stevens prosecutors. There was no public proceeding to rebut allegations that government lawyers intentionally kept secret information that would have helped the Alaska senator defend against public corruption charges.

As companies are bought and sold, legal obligations may transfer with the acquired entity to the purchaser, including the responsibility to preserve and potentially produce electronically stored information in a legal proceeding.

As the special prosecutor in the Ted Stevens case appeared on Capitol Hill to testify about prosecutorial abuses, the Justice Department today issued a statement urging members of Congress not to meddle with discovery practices.

Under a precedent nearly 50 years old, prosecutors in federal criminal cases must share with defendants evidence that points toward their possible innocence. But federal courts across the country have differing views on what that actually means, and the differences could determine whether someone goes free or to prison.

The Washington attorney who investigated allegations of prosecutorial misconduct in the Ted Stevens case is expected to testify next week on Capitol Hill about his investigation.

Less than two years after the death of former Alaska U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens in a Western Alaska plane crash came the report he longed to see while still alive -- a government report released last week may have cleared his name in the charges against him.

A report released last week lays out in shocking detail the government’s badly marred prosecution of the late senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska). Unforgivably, prosecutors failed to turn over evidence that could have helped the former senator refute corruption charges.