Your Patriot Act at work... :eyes:
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a dramatic reversal, the Justice Department acknowledges its original prosecution of a suspected terror cell in Detroit was filled with a "pattern of mistakes and oversights" that warrant the dismissal of the convictions.
In a 60-page memo that harshly criticizes its own prosecutors' work, the department told U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen on Tuesday night it supports the Detroit defendants' request for a new trial and would
no longer pursue terrorism charges against them. The defendants at most would only face fraud charges at a new trial.
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The reversal comes during the buildup to President Bush's nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, where he and his allies have been touting their success in the war on terror. :D
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The internal investigation of prosecutorial misconduct found enough problems that there is "no reasonable prospect of winning," the government conceded,
drawing back from a case once hailed by the Bush administration as a major victory in the war on terror. "In its best light, the record would show that the prosecution committed a pattern of mistakes and oversights that
deprived the defendants of discoverable evidence (including impeachment material) and created a record filled with misleading inferences that such material did not exist," Justice told the court.
More here:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-09-01-terror-doj_x.htmOver-reaching, hysteria-inducing bastards. Everyone feel safer? Bueller? Bueller?
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