Hung Jury in Terror Finance Case

By TChris, Section Terror Trials
Posted on Tue Oct 23, 2007 at 09:51:00 AM EST
Tags: Holy Land (all tags)

The government's most celebrated effort to prosecute a Muslim charity for financing terrorism ended in a bust.

A federal judge declared a mistrial on Monday in what was widely seen as the government’s flagship terrorism-financing case after prosecutors failed to persuade a jury to convict five leaders of a Muslim charity on any charges, or even to reach a verdict on many of the 197 counts. ...