A federal judge in Washington did not hold two prosecutors in the Ted Stevens case in criminal contempt when he blasted the government for failing to promptly turn over documents, an appeals court ruled.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan declared prosecutors William Welch II and Brenda Morris in contempt at a hearing in February 2009 amid a dispute about the Justice Department’s failure to provide documents to the Alaska senator’s defense lawyers.

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