DOJ Prosecutor Nicolas A. Marsh Commits Suicide Amid Investigation for Misconduct in Handling of Ted Stevens Case

As they say, karma is a bi**h. How else would you explain why Nicolas A. Marsh, a Justice Department prosecutor, who killed himself? He committed suicide while under investigation over whether he and other attorneys in the prosecution of Sen. Ted Stevens acted improperly in the case.

Nicholas A. Marsh, 37, committed suicide on Sunday, two years after being part of the Justice Department team that convicted Stevens on corruption charges that were eventually thrown out. Marsh's suicide was confirmed by his lawyer, Robert Luskin.

The prosecutors in the Stevens case failed to disclose evidence favorable to the defendant as Supreme Court precedent requires. The omission was so serious that Attorney General Eric Holder stepped in and asked a federal judge to throw out Stevens' convictions, which the judge did, while taking the additional step of appointing a prominent Washington attorney, Henry Schuelke, to investigate possible improprieties by the prosecutors. Source: AJC

Marsh just couldn't stand the heat in the kitchen, so he decided to take the easy way out. So many times we have heard of over zealous prosecutors changing the course of an innocent person's life by presenting a flawed case that the jury buys and the judge imposes a severe sentence. Ted Stevens should have never been subjected to such a harrowing experience for what he was accused of doing -- taking bribes. Scooter Libby, a lackey for former Vice President Dick Cheney, was given a slap on the wrist for far worse offenses that Stevens, who recently died in a plane crash.