Ohio

Demjanjuk Loses in U.S. Supreme Court

By Cleveland Law Library

The United States Supreme Court has declined to grant a petition for a writ of certiorari to John Demjanjuk, a local resident of Seven Hills, Ohio who has been accused of being Ivan (also spelled Iwan) the Terrible, a Nazi death-camp guard. The long-running case against Demjanjuk has been pending for several decades, during which Demjanjuk has been fighting a deportation order, most recently (and unsuccessfully) on January 30, 2008 in the federal 6th Circuit Court in Cincinnati, Ohio (Case No. 07-3022 on PACER). The Plain Dealer article reporting the Supreme Court's decision indicates that Demjanjuk will finally have to move to Germany, Poland or the Ukraine. PACER contains the dockets for the underlying district court proceedings in Case Nos. 1:99-cv-01193 (USA v. Demjanjuk) and 1:88-cv-00864-GWW (Demjanjuk v. USA). A wikipedia article chronicles the progress of Demjanjuk's case since it began in the late 70's.

Full post as published by Cleveland Law Library Weblog on May 20, 2008 (boomark / email).