Word: demjanjuk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many observers have speculated the Sixth Circuit will reopen Demjanjuk's denaturalization and extradition proceedings. However, Justice Department officials last summer contended the federal appeals court lacked authority to reconsider Demjanjuk's 1986 extradition...
...Demjanjuk's attorneys have been using the Soviet records, which contain statements of Nazi guards from the Treblinka death camp, in an effort to prove misconduct by OSI and reverse Demjanjuk's denaturalization and extradition. Wiseman will hear closing arguments from the attorneys for Demjanjuk and the government in Nashville in April...
...last June, Robert Mueller, head of the Justice Department's criminal division, said the department's Office of Professional Responsibility was reviewing the Justice Department's handling of the Demjanjuk case. But an official from that office, speaking on condition of anonymity, said in an interview last month that his office could not discipline people who no longer work for the government...
...These are not civil libertarians who try to criticize the government for its over zealousness, but people who consider Demjanjuk a hero," says Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz. "To single out Allan Ryan, who is one of the most decent, honorable men I've worked with, is just outrageous...
Experts in legal ethics believe the federal appeals court would have to find that Ryan personally withheld evidence in the Demjanjuk case before the Harvard attorney could be disciplined. And Ryan denied suppressing evidence under oath in a hearing before Wiseman last month in Boston...