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Atlanta
Appeals Court rejects report presented by Eric Luna
of the University of Utah
 THE
U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta,
Georgia, hast just rejected (May 8) a motion of
leave to file a report in favor of the five Cuban
patriots presented by Professor Eric Luna of the
University of Utah, according to the
Antiterrorista.cu website on Thursday.
Eric
Luna presented the motion on April 9, 2003 on behalf
of the Cuban Society of Penal Science.
The
text details 40 years of attacks perpetrated against
Cuba by groups in Florida and affirms that the
United States is obliged by its own legislation to
avoid that kind of terrorism originating within its
own territory.
As a
result, continues the report, the Florida District
Court responsible for the trial of the Five made an
error in not instructing the jury on the issue of
defense born of need and on not organizing a new
trial.
Various
groups and associations of legal experts in the
United States and Cuba interested in the case have
functioned as friends of the Court, with the
objective of presenting amicus curiae briefs
supporting a retrial in a different venue and the
inclusion in the analysis of Cuba’s right to
defend itself from terrorism.
The
communication from the Atlanta Court, signed by
Charles R. Wilson, U.S. district judge, confines
itself to rejecting the motion for leave to file an
amicus brief by Eric Luna, of the Law Faculty of the
University of Utah on behalf of the Cuban Society of
Penal Science, and another to be attached to a
report from the National Lawyers Guild, the latter
denied as moot.
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--
Weinglass
demonstrates that Antonio’s sentence is cruelly
unjust
May
14,
2003
The DA’s Office
has acknowledged that none of the five Cubans imprisoned in
the United States on false espionage charges handled any
information that was classified or linked to the U.S. national
defense.
-- United
States denies visas to the wives of Gerardo and René for the
third time
May
13,
2003
WHILE the United States is
referring to itself as the universal judge and launching its
anti-terrorist crusade, five Cubans are suffering the weight
of grossly unjust sentences in the United States for saving
Cuba from potential terror.
-- Antonio
Guerrero’s appeal lodged at Atlanta Court
May
7,
2003
ONE
month after the appeals of four of the five Cuban
prisoners of the U.S. empire were lodged at the
Atlanta Court, Leonard Weinglass has presented that
of Antonio Guerrero, after requesting more time due
to limited contact with his client.
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