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Miami prosecutors ask for
reconsideration of Atlanta court ruling
 MIAMI (USA),
September 28—Federal prosecutors in Florida’s
southern district have asked the full 11th Circuit
Court of Appeals to reconsider the decision
overturning the arbitrary and illegal trial of the
five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters in 2001 in Miami.
According to an EFE
dispatch, U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta presented a
petition to the Atlanta court requesting that "all
12 justices" reconsider the case, after the August 9
ruling by a panel of three of that Court’s judges
with broad support that is very difficult to refute.
The judges annulled the trial of Cubans Gerardo
Hernández, René González, Ramón Labañino, Antonio
Guerrerro and Fernando González because they
believed that the defendants did not have a "fair
and impartial trial" in Miami, where the anti-Cuban
ultra-right dominates the media and created an
atmosphere contrary to justice, committed wholesale
irregularities and violated basic procedures.
The prosecutor added, without explaining why,
that the Appeals Court ruling "runs contrary" to
Supreme Court decisions in similar cases and to the
11th Circuit Court.
The three-judge panel agreed with arguments
presented by the defendants in which they affirmed
that prejudice by the Miami ultra-right against the
Cuban Revolution created a situation that prevented
a fair and impartial trial and ordered, in an
unprecedented 93-page decision, the revocation of
the sentences against the Five and a retrial, but
the Washington government, in its commitment to the
Miami mafia, is persisting, with this new step, in
its maneuvering to punish those who were fighting
against the terrorism that was threatening Cuban and
U.S. citizens.
This appeal once again prolongs the imprisonment
of the Five heroes, whose release is being demanded
worldwide by thousands and thousands of people who
already know the truth. |
