WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department has asked a judge to throw out the convictions of a suspected terror cell in Detroit because of prosecutorial misconduct, reversing course in a case the Bush administration once hailed as a major victory in the war on terrorism, legal sources said Tuesday.Read the rest here: (link)
The department told U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen that it supports the Detroit defendants' request for a new trial and would no longer pursue charges of material support of terrorism. That means the defendants at most would only face fraud charges at a new trial, the legal sources said.
I guess railroading people for political gain sometimes comes back to bite one in the ass. Will all the noise from the RNC drown out this news story?
UPDATE (link)
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