Cleared Terror Defendant Sues Prosecutor

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Cleared Terror Defendant Sues Prosecutor

Friday August 31, 2007 3:01 PM

DETROIT (AP) - A Moroccan immigrant who was
held for three years before his terrorism-related
conviction was thrown out has filed a $9 million
federal lawsuit against the prosecutor and two
others involved in the case.

Karim Koubriti, 28, argues in the lawsuit that
former federal prosecutor Richard Convertino
violated his civil rights.

Convertino led the government's case in the
nation's first major terrorism trial after the
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. He was removed in
2003 after the Justice Department concluded
he withheld evidence that could have proved
the innocence of the four defendants accused
of comprising a Detroit “sleeper” terror cell.

Three of the men's convictions were later
thrown out after the Justice Department
acknowledged its original prosecution was
filled with a “pattern of mistakes and
oversights.” The fourth was acquitted.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6888164,00.html

[DCKit]

1. Yet again, it's not WHAT they did, but that they got CAUGHT.

How embarrassing.