Al-Arian Search Warrant Documents Accidentally Destroyed [View All]

AP-ES-12-09-03 1102EST

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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The search warrants used to raid former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian's home and offices in 1995 as part of a terrorism probe have been accidentally destroyed, a judge has told his attorneys.
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Defense attorney Linda Moreno called the destruction of documents a "significant development" in the case, but declined to comment further Tuesday on how it might affect Al-Arian and three other men now facing federal charges of financing Palestinian terrorists.

The documents are crucial because it was the 1995 searches that gave federal investigators a basis for continuing to investigate Al-Arian for nearly eight years before he was indicted in February. The defense attorneys could ask the judge to throw out any evidence seized or learned through the searches, saying they can't determine the searches' legality without the warrants.

"We are exploring different remedies," Moreno said.
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Hmmm jailed w/o bond awaiting JANUARY 2005 trial...records DESTROYED in 1998 and he was arrested WHEN? and on what grounds and what evidence?

Gotta wonder...the NEW USA!!!

My belief...they never had anything and jailed him like all the other ME folks and were going to deport him like the others after all the hoopla died down...end of story.

:wow: