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U.S. government
denies Gerardo’s rehearing petition
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WASHINGTON.—On
July 6, the District Attorney’s Office for the state
of Florida informed the Miami Court of its
opposition to the petition presented by Martin
Garbus, the lawyer representing Gerardo Hernández
Nordelo, asking for a rehearing of the case and the
release by the government of additional evidence in
order to investigate the issue of journalists paid
with federal money to create, before and after the
trial of the Cuban Five, what the 2005 Court of
Appeal panel described as a perfect storm of
prejudice and hostility.
 In
a clearly evasive maneuver, the government is
arguing that the facts presented by the defense are
unfounded and it is thus not necessary to procure
more information in order to clarify them. In other
words, Judge Joan Lenard has been told that the
defense exposé of certain journalists’ conduct which,
as she herself acknowledged during the trial,
amounted to intimidating and harassing the jury, is
nothing more than a conspiracy theory and
generalized speculation.
In a brief final paragraph the
District Attorney’s Office also stated its
opposition to the hearing requested by Gerardo. (www.antiterroristas.cu) •
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From prison
WE visited Gerardo Hernández for the
fifth time and, as usual, his spirits seemed higher
than ours despite the fact that he resides in a
maximum-security federal prison.
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CAN SOMEBODY PROTECTING CUBA AGAINST
TERRORISM BE FAIRLY TRIED IN MIAMI?
United
States v. Gerardo Hernández, Luis Medina, Antonio
Guerrero, Rubén Campa and René González.
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New legal step
in the case of
the Cuban Five
ON
June 6, 2012, a motion on behalf of Gerardo
Hernández requesting an Oral Argument and Discovery
was filed with the U.S. Southern District Court of
Florida (Miami Court) by counsel Tom Goldstein and
Martin Garbus*, through his local counsel Richard
Klugh.
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