The Nation - News from Oct. 30, 1985
Lawyers for 11 religious leaders accused of smuggling Central American refugees were turned down in their request in Tucson that the judge in the case be disqualified because he owns stock in a mining company with a plant in El Salvador. Defense lawyers had claimed that Judge Earl Carroll of Phoenix owned stock in the Phelps Dodge Corp., and one of the unindicted co-conspirators in the case had worked at a Phelps subsidiary in El Salvador and was tortured for union organizing.
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