My sister, Melissa Mather, is a lawyer and faculty member at the University of Chicago's Law School in Chicago, IL.
She worked on a case last year involving a Muslim man, Mohammad Hussain, who had been criminally charged with belonging to a terrorist organization in Pakistan. Normally, given the name and religious association, this case is written off as good governmental detective work. But, as always in life, the devil is in the details and listening and reading further will take you deeper into what could become a travesty of justice. Less than a week before giving birth to a beautiful baby boy, Miles (click here for the full story on this little guy), my sister had the distinct honor of arguing this case before the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. If you would like to hear her oral argument, you can click here or the link below:
http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/fdocs/docs.fwx?submit=showbr&shofile=05-3197_033.mp3
There were, as my sister states, "egregious evidentiary errors committed by the district court".
There were, as my sister states, "egregious evidentiary errors committed by the district court".
Yesterday, the Chicago Sun-Times ran an article about this same man and about his predicament. If you click the link below you can read it in its entirety:
The case is now in the hands of immigration lawyers and my sister, while not optomistic, does hold out hope that justice will prevail in releasing this man back to his family.
We all have the potential to find ourselves in a similar travail, given the "wrong place at the wrong time" scenario.
If you can, please read this article. I think you will be moved, as well as disturbed by how this man has been treated.
Drew
1 comments:
Good stuff, Drew. I'll be sure to peruse through the pics as soon as I can!
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