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Feb 6, 2008 12:34 pm US/Eastern

Liberty City Member Faces Deportation

MIAMI (CBS4) ― After being acquitted of terrorism conspiracy charges, Lyglenson Lemorin faces identical charges from U.S. immigration officials. The new charges could end with the Government deporting Lemorin to Haiti.

Immigration law provides for a much lower burden of proof than the "beyond a reasonable doubt" required for a verdict in a criminal case. That makes it easier for U.S. lawyers to deport someone using the same facts, even if they were found innocent by a jury.

Lemorin was one of seven men accused of plotting with a man they thought was an al-Qaida agent to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices in Miami and elsewhere.

He was acquitted in December after a two-month trial, with jurors deadlocked on the guilt of innocence of the remaining six defendants. Prosecutors are now retrying the remaining men in front of another jury.

(© 2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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