Kuehne Gets Early Thanksgiving - All Charges Finally Dropped

The Bush Administration's misguided jihad against the criminal defense bar and the Sixth Amendment appears over.  

The Justice Department dropped all remaining charges against prominent Miami criminal defense lawyer Ben Kuehne and his co-defendants.   Read this report for a fuller account; click here for prior coverage and commentary by Crime, Politics and Policy.

The Justice Department seems embarassed, filing papers to dismiss the final remaining charges on the day before Thanksgiving.   The timing smells of a news dump designed to evade all detection.    However, the development (belated as it is) is welcome as it signals that the new Administration does not have the visceral hatred for the legal profession that the Bush Administration acolytes possessed.