Lawyers Want Case Thown Out for "Disrespecting Koran" !
This story goes hand in hand with the one below. The difference is, this is NOT satire (for the un-initiated).
Lawyers for 2 in 'dirty bomb' terror case allege misconduct at jail: South Florida Sun-Sentinel: "MIAMI -- Attorneys for two terrorism suspects tied to an alleged al-Qaida dirty bomb suspect are asking for the dismissal of a federal indictment against them based on a jailer's mishandling of a Quran and intimidating jail cell searches that removed handwritten papers in Arabic.What are your thoughts? Should this case be thrown out because a Koran was thrown on a bed? Would you all sleep better at night if our judicial system did that?
The defense claims the seizures from the cells of Adhan Amin Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi in May and June amount to government misconduct and an unconstitutional intrusion on trial preparation.
Jailers also disrespectfully tossed Hassoun's Quran on his bunk and left 8,000 pages of trial papers in disarray, his attorney Kenneth Swartz said in motions filed Friday.
Hassoun, a Lebanese-born Palestinian, and Jayyousi, a Jordanian national and U.S. citizen, face possible life prison sentences on charges of plotting to fund and support Islamic jihad through murder and kidnappings abroad, including Bosnia, Chechnya and Somalia." More...
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