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Despite the scheduled reelection, many memberssaid they are concerned about AAA's reputation asa result of the initial misconduct...
Members of the Asian American Association (AAA) last night called for a re-vote following allegations of misconduct in the association's December 16 elections...
...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...
...good faith. It stated that it "accept[s] as true that no OSI attorney deliberately withheld from Demjanjuk or the court information that he believed he had a duty to disclose..." Nonetheless, the court ruled, for the first time in U.S. history as far as I am aware, that "misconduct" can also consist of the honest failure to appreciate the significance of information. Thus, the failure to disclose to Demjanjuk's attorneys certain details that at the time seemed neither relevant nor exculpatory became, in the court of appeals' view, "misconduct" sufficient to set aside the extradition. I believe that...
Second, the three appellate judges, as they deliberated the significance of my actions and those of my colleagues, ignored my request to submit a brief explaining those actions and defending the verdict of no misconduct. In so doing, the three judges on the appeals panel limited my participation in the proceeding to the testimony I had given before investigating judge, and barred me from presenting my views on the judge's report to them. I believe this is fundamentally unfair...