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New twist in Demjanjuk saga
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Mr. Daystar
In a bell tower, watching you through cross hairs.
Come on man, the Israelis didn't convict this guy...it should have ended there. If he would have been found guilty, and sentenced to death, that's different. But for someone that seems to know the Constitution pretty well...in fact better then a lot of people that live here, your statement really surprises me.
Baill Inneraora
I changed my middle-name to Freeones
I thought there were other threads on him, but this is the only one I could find.
Key evidence against Demjanjuk likely forgery, FBI says
Long-secret report says Nazi ID card may have been faked by Soviets
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 03:56 PM
By David Rising and Randy Herschaft
Associated Press
BERLIN -- An FBI report kept secret for 25 years said the Soviet Union "quite likely fabricated" evidence central to the prosecution of John Demjanjuk -- a revelation that could help the defense as closing arguments resume Wednesday in the retired Ohio auto worker's Nazi war crimes trial in Germany.
The newly declassified FBI field office report, obtained by the Associated Press, casts doubt on the authenticity of a Nazi ID card that is the key piece of evidence in allegations that Demjanjuk served as a guard at the Sobibor death camp in occupied Poland.
Throughout three decades of U.S. hearings, an extradition, a death sentence followed by acquittal in Israel, a deportation and now a trial in Munich, the arguments have relied heavily on the photo ID from an SS training camp that indicates Demjanjuk was sent to Sobibor.
Claims that the card and other evidence against Demjanjuk are Soviet forgeries have repeatedly been made by Demjanjuk's defense attorneys. However, the FBI report provides the first known confirmation that American investigators had similar doubts.
"Justice is ill-served in the prosecution of an American citizen on evidence which is not only normally inadmissible in a court of law, but based on evidence and allegations quite likely fabricated by the KGB," the FBI's Cleveland field office said in the 1985 report, four years after the Soviets had shown U.S. investigators the card.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...vidence-maybe-forged-fbi-thought.html?sid=101
Key evidence against Demjanjuk likely forgery, FBI says
Long-secret report says Nazi ID card may have been faked by Soviets
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 03:56 PM
By David Rising and Randy Herschaft
Associated Press
BERLIN -- An FBI report kept secret for 25 years said the Soviet Union "quite likely fabricated" evidence central to the prosecution of John Demjanjuk -- a revelation that could help the defense as closing arguments resume Wednesday in the retired Ohio auto worker's Nazi war crimes trial in Germany.
The newly declassified FBI field office report, obtained by the Associated Press, casts doubt on the authenticity of a Nazi ID card that is the key piece of evidence in allegations that Demjanjuk served as a guard at the Sobibor death camp in occupied Poland.
Throughout three decades of U.S. hearings, an extradition, a death sentence followed by acquittal in Israel, a deportation and now a trial in Munich, the arguments have relied heavily on the photo ID from an SS training camp that indicates Demjanjuk was sent to Sobibor.
Claims that the card and other evidence against Demjanjuk are Soviet forgeries have repeatedly been made by Demjanjuk's defense attorneys. However, the FBI report provides the first known confirmation that American investigators had similar doubts.
"Justice is ill-served in the prosecution of an American citizen on evidence which is not only normally inadmissible in a court of law, but based on evidence and allegations quite likely fabricated by the KGB," the FBI's Cleveland field office said in the 1985 report, four years after the Soviets had shown U.S. investigators the card.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...vidence-maybe-forged-fbi-thought.html?sid=101
Rey C.
Racing is life... anything else is just waiting.
Even though it appears that the evidence against him was fabricated?
