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Acting at the request of prosecutors, a federal judge on Thursday threw out the terrorism charges against two men convicted last year in a case hailed by the Bush administration as a major victory in the war on terrorism.
But U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen said the two, as well as a third man, must stand trial again on fraud charges.
The judge’s order followed the Justice Department’s admission of widespread prosecutorial misconduct in the case. The department asked the judge to dismiss terrorism charges against two men accused of being in a Detroit terrorism cell.
“It is an inescapable conclusion that the defendants’ due process, confrontation and fair trial rights were violated,” Rosen wrote Thursday.
