Editing Fred A. Leuchter (section)

===Allegations of dishonest court appearances===
In 1990 ''[[Newsweek]]'' reported [[Alabama]] assistant attorney general [[Ed Carnes]] having called Leuchter's views on the gas chamber "unorthodox", and alleging that "Leuchter was running a death row shakedown scheme: if a state didn't purchase Leuchter's services, he would testify at the last minute for the condemned man that the state's death chamber might malfunction."<ref name=leuchter1993>{{cite news | url=https://www.adl.org/issue_holocaust/leuchter-1993.asp | title=Fred A. Leuchter Jr.: An ADL Backgrounder | publisher=[[Anti-Defamation League]] | year=2001 | author=Staff | access-date=March 11, 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007040631/http://www.adl.org/issue_holocaust/leuchter-1993.asp | archive-date=October 7, 2008 }}</ref> The [[Associated Press]] quoted Carnes as claiming that Leuchter made "money on both sides of the fence".<ref name=ap>[[Associated Press]] (October 24, 1990)</ref><ref name=lipstadt>[[Deborah E. Lipstadt|Lipstadt, Deborah E.]] (2005). ''History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving''. Ecco. p.36</ref> In his memorandum to death penalty states, Carnes observed that in Florida and Virginia the federal courts had rejected Leuchter's testimony as unreliable.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/SP/lib00249,0EB5D9DD9D2130AF.html | title=Woman's Execution Stayed Because Of Electric Chair | newspaper=[[St. Paul Pioneer Press]] |date=June 22, 1990 | author=Staff | access-date =March 11, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/WT/lib00179,0EB0EEFBF65E7083.html | title=Execution 'expert' called impostor | newspaper=[[The Washington Times]] |date=October 25, 1990 |author=Staff | access-date =March 11, 2008}}</ref> The court in [[Florida]] had found that Leuchter had "misquoted the statements" contained in an important [[affidavit]] and had "inaccurately surmised" a crucial premise of his conclusion.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.fastcase.com/Google/Documents/ViewDocument.aspx?C=425f69a95344323ceded22ebe2d294f40256504aa9dd4b55&D=59d66c946097e42cf15ee2383b738afcedd0ef64b263feec | title=United States District Court, SD Alabama, SD | publisher=[[United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama]] | date=July 10, 1990 | access-date=March 11, 2008 }}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

In [[Virginia]], Leuchter provided a death row inmate's attorney with an affidavit claiming the [[electric chair]] would fail.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/CSTB/lib00225,0EB373000FBCF273.html | title=Fired expert says execution device may malfunction | newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |date=August 26, 1990 | author=Staff | access-date =March 11, 2008}}</ref> The Virginia court decided the credibility of Leuchter's affidavit was limited because Leuchter was "the refused contractor who bid to replace the electrodes in the Virginia chair".<ref>''[[Newsweek]]'' (October 22, 1990) p.22</ref>