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...report, issued by a Tennessee judge earlier this month, suggested that Ryan's office had likely prosecuted the wrong man as the infamous Nazi death camp guard Ivan the Terrible. The judge concluded that John Demjanjuk, the man Ryan prosecuted, was probably a Nazi guard, but not Ivan the Terrible...
...Soviet evidence, viewed in its entirety, easts a substantial doubt on Mr. Demjanjuk's factual guilt of the central allegation of the denaturalization complaint--that he was Ivan the Terrible of the Treblinka gas chambers," Wiseman wrote...
Until 1991, his certainty in Demjanjuk's guilt was supreme. "We had eyewitnesses who would place him at Treblinka," he wrote in Quiet Neighbors, published in 1984. "I put the two photos side by side and studied them for a long time. You son of a bitch, I thought...
...scientific terms, the prosecutors never attempted to prove the null hypothesis--an alternative hypothesis which is the converse of that in which one believes," Wiseman wrote. "In the Demjanjuk case, attempting to prove the null hypothesis would have led the government investigators and attorneys to look for evidence that someone other than John Demjanjuk was Ivan the Terrible...
Maybe. Maybe not. For Ryan, the lesson of the case of John Demjanjuk could be this: integrity isn't everything, especially when there's more than a reasonable doubt about the identity of your defendant.CrimsonHarton JioALLAN A. RYAN...