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The National Council of Young Israel has taken a lead role in the fight to have Jonathan Pollard released from prison. Through multiple daily conversations with Jonathan, NCYI uses its influence as an international Jewish organization to educate elected officials and the general Jewish community about the Pollard case. Click here to see the Official Pollard Website |
13 Former Prisoners Of Zion Plead For Pollard's Release (May 9, 2008) |
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Click here to see the latest Hamodia article on the Pollard Case (April 16, 2008) : Part1 Part 2 Part 3 |
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An Urgent Request from Jonathan Pollard At the reqeust of Jonathan Pollard's attorneys, Eliot Lauer and Jacques Semmelman of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt and Moslet LLP, we are urging everyone to send a letter to his or her senators and Member of Congress, preferably in hard copy. The attorneys request that you not alter the text of the linked letter in any way, but that you send it exactly as written. The attorneys also request that you provide a copy of your letter to Eliot Lauer or to Jacques Semmelman by email or by fax 212-697-1559 so that they can maintain a complete record of what has been sent. |
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Media Release Re: Pollard |
Re: United States v. Jonathan Pollard Dear __________________: I am writing with regard to Jonathan Pollard, now serving his twentieth year in prison. He was arrested in 1985 and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deliver classified information to the State of Israel. On March 4, 1987, he was sentenced to the maximum penalty, life in prison. In September 2000, Mr. Pollard's new attorneys Eliot Lauer and Jacques Semmelman of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP filed a motion for resentencing in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.. Their motion was based upon recent revelations, fully documented in their court papers, that Mr. Pollard's original defense lawyer was grossly ineffective before, during and immediately after sentencing. Mr. Pollard's life sentence was the direct result of deprivations of his constitutional rights to due process and effective assistance of counsel. The Government's sole response to the motion was that Mr. Pollard waited too long. According to the Government, Mr. Pollard will have to spend the rest of his life in prison because he should have realized earlier that he has a meritorious basis for vacating his sentence on constitutional grounds. I am distressed that our Government has taken this position, which is incompatible with any notion of justice. Mr. Pollard's motion should have been addressed on the merits. The Government can still choose to allow Mr. Pollard's motion to be heard on the merits. That would be eminently fair, and would further the interests of justice. The Attorney General should direct the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia to agree that the motion should be heard on the merits. As a separate matter, there are five partially-classified documents in the court's sentencing docket that no one representing Mr. Pollard has been permitted to see since he was sentenced. After a thorough background investigation, Messrs. Lauer and Semmelman were each granted "Top Secret" security clearance. They were determined eligible for the even higher "SCI" clearance upon showing "need to know." The U.S. Attorney has taken the disingenuous position that Mr. Pollard's lawyers have no "need to know" what is in their client's court docket. Yet, Government personnel opposed to relief for Mr. Pollard have repeatedly been afforded access to these very documents, based upon the Government's unilateral, extra-judicial assessment that its own employees have a "need to know." This disparity in access is unacceptable. I urge you to exert moral pressure on the Attorney General to acknowledge that Mr. Pollard's lawyers have a "need to know" what is in their client's court docket. Sincerely, cc: Eliot Lauer (elauer@cm-p.com) |
