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Re: Mistrial in terror case is another US misstep; Conviction record post-9/11 is spotty
From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:39:17 -0500 (CDT)
Please, not on funsec On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Richard M. Smith wrote:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/10/24/mistrial_in_terror_cas e_is_another_us_misstep/ By Adam Liptak and Leslie Eaton, New York Times News Service | October 24, 2007 NEW YORK - There was a time when federal prosecutors would consistently win terrorism prosecutions. Between 1993 and 2001, prosecutors in Manhattan convicted some three dozen terrorists through guilty pleas and in six major trials. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the government's track record has been decidedly spottier, and its failure to obtain a single conviction on Monday in its terrorism financing prosecution of what was once the nation's largest Islamic charity was another in a series of missteps and setbacks. The comparisons are in some ways unfair; the earlier prosecutions were for acts of violence or for conspiracies that were relatively close to fruition. The recent ones have often relied on the less colorful charge that the defendants had given "material support" to a terrorist organization. That shift is itself reflective of a conscious change in Washington's law enforcement strategy, to prevention from punishment. But some scholars and former prosecutors say that the government should have known better than to bring some of its recent failed cases and that a lack of selectivity and judgment, along with a reliance on stale evidence and links to groups not at the core of the current threat, may be harming the effort to combat terrorism. ...
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- Re: Mistrial in terror case is another US misstep; Conviction record post-9/11 is spotty Gadi Evron (Oct 24)