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Article: Demjanjuk: He's guilty to some even if he's innocent. (Originated from Orange County Register)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- August 2, 1993
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John Demjanjuk was acquitted Wednesday by the Israel Supreme Court of being the notorious ``Ivan the Terrible,'' by all accounts a particularly sadistic guard at the Nazi death camp in Treblinka. But 16 years were taken from his life. How did he become a victim of mistaken identity for such a long time? Why did the agency assigned to hunt down former Nazis, the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, persist so unrelentingly in the face of shaky and even contradictory evidence?
Neal Sher, director of the OSI, offered some hints in his comments in the wake of the flat and unanimous rejection by the Israeli Supreme Court of the case the OSI built against ...