Same Judge to Hear 2nd Bid to Deport 8 Accused in PLO Case
Chief Immigration Judge William R. Robie on Thursday selected the same judge, Ingrid K. Hrycenko, to again conduct the deportation cases of seven Jordanians and a Kenyan accused of belonging to a Marxist faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Earlier in the week, Hrycenko threw out the cases when U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service attorneys failed to produce a government investigator for questioning as she had ordered.
Robie’s assistant, Immigration Judge Mary Ann Mohan, in Los Angeles to work out the details, said a late June date will be selected for re-starting the deportation hearings.
The aliens, accused of belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, have denied the charges.
Normally, an immigration judge would be selected on a more random basis locally and not by the chief judge, whose office is in Falls Church, Va.
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