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Article: Justice Department takes its fight in Demjanjuk case to Supreme Court
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- The Ukrainian Weekly
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- June 5, 1994
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Alexandra Frank
Ukrainian Weekly, The
06-05-1994
Justice Department takes its fight in Demjanjuk case to Supreme Court.
The Justice Department has taken its fight in the John Demjanjuk case to the U.S. Supreme Court. On May 24, the department asked the Supreme Court to throw out a federal appeals court ruling that prosecutors had committed fraud by withholding exculpatory evidence from the Demjanjuk defense.
Solicitor General Drew S. Days petitioned the court to review a November 1993 finding by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals that the U.S. government had committed fraud and its subsequent ruling overturning the 1987 extradition order against Mr. Demjanjuk, then suspected of being the ...