JUDGE THROWS OUT CHARGES IN 20-YEAR OLD PALESTINIAN DEPORTATION CASE

"Judge Einhorn wrote in an 11-page opinion that begins with a poem that ?the attenuation of these proceedings is a festering wound on the body of respondents and an embarrassment to the rule of law.? He held that the government violated Hamide and Shehadeh?s right to due process by subjecting them to a 20-year deportation proceeding, while at the same time being unprepared to prosecute the case." [This single document combines a joint press release, chronology, and the IJ's decision.]