E-Mails Barred in Trial on Terrorism Websites
Prosecutors in the terrorism-related trial of a Saudi graduate student may not show jurors Web pages and e-mails that allegedly encourage terrorism unless they prove he created them or specifically embraced their content, a judge ruled.
U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge said in Boise that the material could be prejudicial to Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, and “there’s no way the court can strike from jurors’ minds evidence that is not tied up.”
Al-Hussayen, 34, a computer science student at the University of Idaho, is accused of setting up and running websites that were used to recruit terrorists and support the Palestinian militant group Hamas and organizations that advocate attacks on the U.S.
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