(Washington Post) - Attorneys for Jonathan Jay Pollard, the U.S. Navy intelligence analyst convicted of spying for Israel 16 years ago, argued in federal court Tuesday that he has been punished too harshly because of mistakes by previous lawyers and the government's reliance on dubious claims about the damage he caused. "The Jonathan Pollard case is a stain on the American legal process," his attorney Eliot Lauer said. "The government agreed they would not seek a life sentence, and that's exactly what they did...and Jonathan Pollard has repeatedly been denied justice."
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