A giant Step for American Justice. Next!
A
New York Jewish attorney asked a federal judge to exclude all Jews from
a jury involving a client facing charges for lying about joining the
Taliban.
Frederick Cohn is representing Abdel Hameed
Shehadeh, who is facing charges in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn for
lying to the FBI about his involvement with the Taliban. Shehadeh was
indicted in 2010
Cohn believes Jews on the jury would be biased automatically against his client, according to the New York Post.
“Given
that there’s going to be inflammatory testimony about Jews and Zionism,
I think it would be hard for Jews to cast aside any innate antipathy,”
said Cohn, who himself is Jewish. “The American Jewish community is
heavily aligned with Israel and Zionism. Here is a guy who is a Muslim,
who is opposed to those things.”
The subject of Jews
on Shehadeh trial’s jury first arose in February, when Cohn told Judge
Eric Vitaliano that he wasn’t “wild about having Jews on the jury in
this case” while acknowledging his request was a “long shot.”
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/03/11/3121741/new-york-atttorney-asks-judge-to-ban-jews-from-jury#When:17:04:00Z
Monday 11 March 2013
N.Y. Attorney Seeks to Ban Jews from Jury
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