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Rubashkins Lawyers Head to Supreme Court, Sentencing Set for Pesach Sheini

Lawyers for Sholom M. Rubashkin last Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review his conviction in the District Court of Northern Iowa, in hopes that the highest court in the country will find reason to revisit the case.

The lawyers filed a petition for a writ of certiorari, in which the Supreme Court agrees to review a lower court’s case.

Since the former executive of now-defunct Agriprocessors Inc. was found guilty of bank fraud and other charges in November, his lawyers have appealed to have the conviction overturned, or for their client to get a new trial altogether. Earlier in the week, the appellate court had denied Rubashkin’s requests. He also has been denied bail on several occasions.

Rubashkin’s Supreme Court tactic is a long shot: The Court grants only about 1 percent of the petitions it receives.

Meanwhile a sentencing date for the conviction in the first trial was set for April 28, which is Pesach Sheini, in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids.

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10 Comments

  • anonymous

    ~ When the world says, “Give up,” hope whispers, “Try it one more time.” anonymous

  • G-d should help this man!

    Pesach Sheni is my birthday. I will daven extra hard & give my Brachas for a good result.

  • Happy Ending

    A Hollywood director couldn’t have picked a better day for the sentencing. The day when Jews get their second chance. For sure this script will have a happy ending.

  • BP Yid

    Amen to a good ending…we don’t know what is good for us, only HaShem knows

  • Such hashgacha elyona!

    Pesach Sheini is another chance!

    G-d is watching over SMR and all of Klal Yisroel!

  • Can we Help?

    Can we right letters or show up for the sentencing? Is ther anything we can do besides tehilim?

  • j.j.zuker

    vos vil men fun em?
    genug
    a yid nebech zitst umshuldigerheit
    vail er z a yid
    can un imagine sitting by your seder knowing that in iowa in a cell sm is having his double portion of marror?[or triple] we should all proclaim a tannis and let the world know that thousands of jews are fasting ”a hunger strike ” on smr behalf .
    Perhaps if the world will know
    hakodesh borech hu will also know…

  • rochie bernstein

    I think we should change the title to
    iyh rubashkin to be freed on pesach sheinei
    we know that every thing we say has a reflection melimaalah
    and even though they want to sentence him it could be changed like the kllalot of bilaom
    so let us not say sentencing but freedom