House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich, will hold a joint hearing on “Selective Prosecution: The Erosion of Public Confidence in Our Federal Justice System,” on Tuesday, Oct. 23 at 10 a.m., according to the committee’s Website.

The hearing will be a joint session of the subcommittees on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, and Commercial and Administrative Law.

No witness list or supporting documents have been posted yet, and there’s no word on whether the hearing will in fact include information about the case of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.

Time magazine has previously reported that attorney Doug Jones of Birmingham may be called as a witness, since he represented Siegelman briefly in the early days of his case - and since he indicated in reporting for the Locust Fork News and Journal and The Progressive Populist newspaper in Texas that White House involvement in political prosecuations should be investigated.

North Alabama lawyer Jill Simpson may be called as a witness to testify at some point, although her attorney is out of the country and has indicated it will be several weeks before that testimony may happen.

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