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United States v. Ghailani

District Court, S.D. New York

Decided January 21, 2011No. S10 98 Crim. 1023 (LAK)PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

LEWIS A. KAPLAN, District Judge.

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was indicted in 1998 for his alleged complicity in the 1998 bombings of two United States embassies in east Africa in which 224 people were killed and over a thousand injured. He was apprehended in Pakistan in 2004 and then transferred to exclusive CIA custody. On June 9, 2009, Ghailani was brought to the Southern District of New York. Following a lengthy trial, the jury found Ghailani guilty of Count 5 — conspiracy to destroy buildings and property of the United States — and not guilty of the other 284 counts with which he was…

2Cases cited39 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Napue v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
  3. United States v. YoungSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  4. Pinkerton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
  5. United States v. PowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1984

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. United States v. GhailaniCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2013
  2. United States v. RajaratnamDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 2011
  3. United States v. RosemondDistrict Court, S.D. Illinois · 2018
  4. Ghailani v. United StatesDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 2020

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