U.S. v. Wilson, No. H-82-139 (S.D.Tex.) (289 F.Supp.2d 801) (October 27, 2003) (Judge Lynn N. Hughes)
Loaded on Oct. 1, 2003
published in Punch and Jurists
October 06, 2003
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False Statements, Testimony or Documents.
Here the Court vacated a 1983 conviction of former CIA operative, Edwin Wilson, for selling tons of explosives to Libya, after finding that prosecutors and high level Government officials knowingly used false testimony and hid exculpatory evidence.
Judge Hughes’ opinion in this case reads more like a novel …
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