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| Court Denies Fla. Ex-Professor's Appeal |
| 2008-01-26 |
| A former Florida college professor who pleaded guilty to aiding a Palestinian terrorist group was not immune from a subpoena forcing him to testify in an unrelated probe of Muslim charities, an appeals court ruled Friday. Sami Al-Arian, 50, had argued the terms of the plea agreement exempted him from testifying before a grand jury in an investigation of Islamic charities in Virginia. A federal judge disagreed and found Al-Arian guilty of contempt when he refused to testify. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied Al-Arian's appeal Friday, ruling that federal prosecutors did not violate the plea agreement by forcing him to testify in the Virginia case. An attorney for Al-Arian in the contempt case said a clause requiring him to testify in other cases was specifically removed when the plea agreement was written because Al-Arian made it clear to prosecutors that he wouldn't do it. "This is politics, this is not law," his attorney, C. Peter Erlinder, said of the ruling. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #3 "ex-professor". Give me a break. How about ex-terrorist or traitor? Ex-professor. *spit* in the good ol' days he would have just been an ex. |
| Posted by: Punky Omeagum5537 2008-01-26 23:08 |
| #2 Most excellent. If judges stand up for Americans, scum like Al-Arian and his CAIR lawdogs can be put back in their holes. Hope Sami is enjoying his bolgna and cheese and nightly ass reaming. Stay there another 40 years and we'll be done with you terrorist. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2907 2008-01-26 14:00 |
| #1 Let me guess. Another part of the original plea agreement says that his 'confession' is full and total in all aspects of his involvement with any and all other organizations with islamic/terrorist ties. And that if he were to testify in these other 'unrelated' trials and have to take a 5th Amendment plea, that would make null and void the original 'contract'/plea. Maybe, huh? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-01-26 09:20 |