You can't interrogate a website, right? So the PIJ website material shouldn't be admitted, right? If the defense wins on this one, Al-Arian might as well start choosing furniture for his new USF office. Al-Arian Walk Watch, from the St. Petersburg Times, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
Al-Arian and three co-defendants are charged with helping raise money for Palestinian Islamic Jihad so that the organization could commit terrorist acts in Israel and the occupied territories. Prosecutors believe the PIJ Web site information from defendants' computers is important because it shows knowledge of the organizations' terrorist acts.Defense attorneys have argued that they can't cross-examine a Web site and that the computer evidence from Web sites shouldn't be admitted. The judge will decide about admissibility once the time issue involving computer experts is clarified.
The D.A. is grasping now trying to pull the proverbial rabbit out of a hat. But it's not going to work. I wager that at the end of several appeals, Sam the Man goes to the Big House for a very long time.
By that argument, you can't cross examine a gun used in a murder. Surely the judge won't agree to this argument by the defense.
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You can't cross-examine a website, but you can cross-examine the people who have care and control over it. That's how the US managed to extradite Hans Zundel back to Canada -- because of the neo-Nazi website he owned and operated.
The Canadians packed Ernst off to Germany because he was only a landed immigrant and the Canadian legal system managed to convict him for inciting hatred against Jews via his Holocaust denial activities.
OT, but is anyone here up on how the Germans are proceeding with how he is being prosecuted there for Holocaust denial?
Sami, you're going to the Big House.
And here's your cell mate, Bruno. Try telling him about the Religion of Peace and Submission.