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Jailed Haitian Priest Is Allowed Care in U.S.

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From Times Wire Reports

A politically influential Roman Catholic priest arrived in Miami after Haiti’s government temporarily freed him from jail in order to receive leukemia and pneumonia treatment.

The Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste will be treated at Jackson Memorial Hospital, said Ira Kurzban, a lawyer for the cleric. Jean-Juste has been in prison on suspicion of involvement in the killing of prominent Haitian journalist and poet Jacques Roche.

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