Word: sheftel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This week Israel's highest court will finally render its judgment on Demjanjuk's appeal, for which hearings were completed just over a year ago. Yoram Sheftel, Demjanjuk's lawyer, feels "fully confident" his client will go free; Israelis, in fact, are steeling themselves for the prospect that what may be the last major Nazi war trial will end in failure. New evidence supporting Demjanjuk's contention that he was the victim of mistaken identity has convinced many observers that while he may be Ivan the Not Very Nice, accountable for lesser crimes, Demjanjuk will be cleared of the atrocities...
Demjanjuk's Israeli lawyer, Yoram Sheftel, went on ABC News' "Nightline" with Ryan and accused the Harvard attorney of supressing crucial evidence in order to "frame" his client. Ryan denied that charge then and he denies...
...December 1991, Ryan was accused of a similar kind of misconduct--suppressing evidence during his tenure at OSI that might have cleared Demjanjuk. The charge was initially leveled by Yoram Sheftel, an attorney for Demjanjuk in Israel, where the alleged Ivan the Terrible now sits on death...
Ryan vehemently denied the charges on ABC's "Nightline" when Sheftel initially made them. The suggestion still infuriates him today...
...facing a frame, and this material was deliberately suppressed from me by the Americans, the Soviets and the Israelis," Sheftel told a national television audience...