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Supreme Court justice rejects stay of deportation for accused Nazi guard

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens on Thursday denied an application for stay of deportation filed by accused Nazi prison guard John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk faces deportation to Germany, where in March a Munich district court charged him with 29,000 counts of accessory to murder for his alleged involvement at the Sobibor concentration camp. Demjanjuk could choose to file an application with another justice. Also Thursday, lawyers for Demjanjuk said that he has appealed a Wednesday ruling by a Berlin court that rejected a suit seeking to block his deportation. Demjanjuk has fought a lengthy legal battle over his alleged involvement with Nazi death camps during World War II. In 2008, the US Supreme Court denied certiorari in Demjanjuk v. Mukasey, ending the appeals process for his deportation order. Demjanjuk was appealing a 2005 ruling by then-US Chief Immigration Judge Michael Creppy which ordered his deportation. Demjanjuk had previously lost his appeal to the BIA. In 1988, Demjanjuk was convicted and sentenced to death by an Israeli court which found that he was a notorious guard from Treblinka nicknamed "Ivan the Terrible." The sentence was vacated by the Israeli Supreme Court in 1993, and Demjanjuk returned to the US.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on May 07, 2009 (boomark / email).