MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Former Gov. Don Siegelman, who was sentenced to six and a half years in prison, told the Fox Business Network that a presidential pardon is his "last hope for freedom" and continued to criticize the 2006 case in which he was convicted.
Siegelman said a flaw in the law allowed a jury to infer a crime was committed when it didn't happen.
"Yes, we are asking the president, whomever it may be this November, to issue a clemency or a pardon or commute my sentence," Siegelman told the Fox Business Network in a Monday interview.
"Not only to set me free but also to draw attention to the courts and to Congress and to the president of this flaw in the law that allows juries to convict business men and women and politicians on the basis of an inferred or an implied deal.