United States v. Ghailani

AMENDED MEMORANDUM OPINION

LEWIS A. KAPLAN, District Judge.

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani recently was convicted of one count of conspiracy in connection with in the 1998 bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, in which over 200 people were killed and over 4,000 injured. The jury further found that his conduct directly or proximately caused death to a person other than a conspirator. He now awaits sentencing.

At trial, the government presented over 40 witnesses, many of whom were East African Swahili speakers who testified through an interpreter.…