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Acquitted "Liberty City 7" Defendant Back In Court

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Feb 4, 2008 9:27 am US/Eastern

Acquitted "Liberty City 7" Defendant Back In Court

ATLANTA (CBS4) ― One of the so called "Liberty City 7," who was acquitted on terrorism charges in Miami last December, will now face the same accusations during an immigration hearing in Atlanta this week.

Immediately after his acquittal, Lyglenson Lemorin, a Haitian national, was whisked off to a detention facility in Georgia to face a deportation hearing. Legal experts say the case could encourage the government to take similar action against other law-abiding immigrants who are arrested but not convicted of a crime.

The "Liberty City 7" are accused of plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and an FBI building in North Miami Beach. A retrial began Friday for the six other defendants, because the jury that acquitted Lemorin deadlocked on them.

This Thursday an immigration attorney for Lemorin will defend him against the same ''material-support'' conspiracy charges he was acquitted of in Miami. Lemorin's case will be heard in front of an administrative judge, with no jury, in an immigration court which has a lower standard of proof. If he's convicted, he could be deported to Haiti.

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