Tampa-based engineering student survives Kafka-esque ordeal in U.S. immigration court.<\/p>\n
Youssef Megahed, a Tampa-based engineering student, was acquitted of terrorism-related charges and walked out of an immigration court a free man last month, after a judge rejected the U.S. government\u2019s bid to deport him on identical charges.<\/p>\n
Judge Kenneth Hurewitz had sided with Department of Homeland Security lawyers in 2008 in a similar case when he\u2019d ordered the removal of a Miami man to his Haitian homeland after he had been acquitted of terror-conspiracy charges. Hurewitz had deported Lyglenson Lemorin.<\/p>\n
Charles Kuck, an Atlanta-based immigration attorney, offered some conjecture. \u201cThe government\u2019s lawyers misunderstood that every case is different and you must plead what you\u2019re going to prove,\u201d he said of the Megahed case. \u201cThey failed to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lemorin, 34, one of the so-called Liberty City Seven defendants, has a good shot of winning on appeal which will come up sometime this fall, although he (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tampa-based engineering student survives Kafka-esque ordeal in U.S. immigration court. Youssef Megahed, a Tampa-based engineering student, was acquitted of terrorism-related charges and walked out of an immigration court a free man last month, after a judge rejected the U.S. government\u2019s…<\/span><\/p>\n