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...owner of a Cambridge hair salon was convicted today of raping a then 19-year-old Harvard undergraduate and sentenced to seven to 10 years in prison, a Middlesex District Attorney spokesman said...
...deliberation, a jury acquitted one of the defendants, Lyglenson Lemorin, and gave up on the remaining six. The judge declared mistrials in those cases, and a new trial is scheduled for next year. It was a major loss for the government. In 2006, after the arrests, then-U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales heralded the arrests and warned that, if "left unchecked, these homegrown terrorists may prove to be as dangerous as groups like al-Qaeda...
...protect a friend, according to the complaint. It was a one-time lapse, the complaint says, and Omar "has proven to be credible and reliable." But there are other red flags. "Clearly the informant had the opportunity to activate and deactivate the recording device," says Rocco Cipparone Jr., defense attorney for Mohamed Shnewer, according to his knowledge of the evidence so far. If that is true, it raises questions about how closely the informant was supervised. (The U.S. Attorney's office declined to comment on the claim, citing the impending trial.) In addition, the informants' recording devices - which may have...
...know what was said before or after that. At another point, Dritan seemed stunned by a list of available weapons provided by Omar, saying "There was some stuff on the list that was heavy s___." The broader context will come out during the trial, and the defense attorneys are combing through the transcripts. "I get more confident the more stuff I read," says Troy Archie, attorney for Eljvir. "To me, it looks like they're using informants to rile these guys...
...Burim believes that Omar "brainwashed" Mohamed. A sixth defendant, Agron Abdullahu, pleaded guilty in October to conspiring to aid and abet the other men by loaning them guns. But he was never charged in the plan against Fort Dix, and he faces less than five years in prison. His attorney says he will not testify against the other men, since he was not aware of any plot...