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...that found Wilson guilty of selling C-4 to Libya, which was subject to a total U.S. arms embargo at the time, told ABC News earlier this year, "If we had known [of Wilson's CIA links], I could say unequivocally that there would not have been a guilty verdict." It was on the basis of the newfound evidence that District Court Judge Lynn Hughes threw out Wilson's conviction, saying from the bench, "One would have to work hard to conceive of a more fundamentally unfair process ... than the fabrication of false data by the government ... presented knowingly...
...Last year he ruled that prosecutors were using too broad an interpretation of a 1996 law that makes it illegal to provide "material support" to designated terrorist groups; they would have to prove that al-Arian knowingly funded Islamic Jihad terrorist activities. Jurors told reporters after last week's verdict that the feds simply didn't get that done. But the government was also hamstrung by the fact that most of its evidence focused on al-Arian's activities before the U.S. branded Islamic Jihad a terrorist group in 1995. Al-Arian's associates say the earlier time...
Jurors indicated that most of them favored acquittal on the deadlocked counts against al-Arian. After the verdict, he told the St. Petersburg Times that he was "very confident the worst is over." But the government may simply deport him on pending immigration charges. For now, his wife Nahla says the verdict is vindication "not only for Sami but for our children, who are Americans. It matters to me that they have faith in this country...
Harvard law professors who oppose on-campus military recruitment—and their allies at other schools, including Yale and Duke—still say they stand a chance of winning a favorable verdict from the high court in the Solomon Amendment case...
...company bribe Zuma to deflect corruption investigations over a $7.5 billion government deal to buy ships, submarines, helicopters, jets and other arms. Squires said that there was "overwhelming" evidence of a corrupt relationship between Shaik and Zuma. Soon after, President Mbeki sacked his deputy, saying that the court's verdict had "raised questions of conduct that would be inconsistent with expectations that attend those who hold public office." Within weeks, Zuma himself had been charged with corruption-charges he says he will fight...