Criminal defense attorney Steve Fishman has strung together some impressive wins in Detroit's federal courthouse over the last few years -- and he thinks George W. Bush deserves some of the credit.

Fishman thinks the current administration's record of deception on matters ranging from the war in Iraq to last year's politically-tainted ousters of at least nine federal prosecutors has made jurors more susceptible to the idea that federal prosecutors in Detroit may not be telling them the unvarnished truth...

Stephen Murphy, the outgoing Detroit U.S. Attorney who was confirmed this week to a lifetime seat on Detroit's U.S. District Court bench, didn't return my phone calls seeking comment on Fishman's thesis.
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