The reversal came a day after federal prosecutors handed in a nine-month review ordered by the judge and asked that he overturn the convictions. Prosecutors blame missteps in the case on Richard Convertino, who was removed last year as lead prosecutor and is under investigation [see INB 2/7/04]. "The prosecution committed a pattern of mistakes and oversights that deprived the defendants of discoverable evidence" and "created a record filled with misleading inferences that such material did not exist," the review found. David Cole, a Georgetown University law professor, said the Detroit case "fits into a broader pattern of the Ashcroft Justice Department overplaying its hand in terror cases and making broad allegations of terror without the evidence to back it up." [New York Times 9/2/04, 9/3/04] Immigration News Briefs (INB), a weekly English-language summary of US immigration news, is forwarded out to the email list of the Coalition for the Human Rights of Immigrants (CHRI). If you receive INB as a forwarded message, and you wish to subscribe directly to INB, or to the CHRI email list (which includes INB and local NYC area events, average 4-5 messages a week), write to nicajg@panix.com (indicate "CHRI list" or "INB only").

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