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...past year, The Crimson has carried a number of stories detailing the charges made by John Demjanjuk against the Office of Special Investigation (OSI) in the U.S. Department of Justice. Demjanjuk alleged that from 1980 to 1983, when I was Director of OSI, evidence relating to Demjanjuk's prosecution as a Nazi death camp guard was suppressed or mishandled...
...that all attorneys involved, myself included, had acted honestly, ethically, and in good faith, never once knowingly concealing or misrepresenting any fact that we had a duty to disclose. He concluded that "this case is more about imperfection than perfidy to justice," and that all OSI attorneys on the Demjanjuk case "are now, and were then, principled, albeit fallible...
...every point in his detailed report, I accepted the judge's verdict as having been reached conscientiously and impartially. I was relieved that he recognized that I and the attorneys who worked under my supervision, whatever our human fallibility, had been truthful, honest, and ethical in our dealings with Demjanjuk's attorneys and with the court that had conducted his trial...
...hoped that this definitive report would be the end of the matter. Unfortunately, it was not. A three-judge panel of a court of appeals reviewed the report and on November 17 it ordered Demjanjuk's extradition to Israel set aside on grounds of prosecutorial misconduct. I was shocked and saddened by this decision, for several reasons...
...think a disciplinary body would take accountof the extreme pressure on the lawyers handlingthe Demjanjuk case," Hazard said. "I don't think Iwould file a grievance if I were the Demjanjukpeople. You're already vindicated. It would begratuitous...