Man Guilty Of Lies About War Crimes Gets New Trial

The Associated Press, Portland Press Herald
Fri, 07/03/2015 - 1:00am

BURLINGTON, Vt. — A man who was found guilty of lying about his participation in war crimes that occurred during the 1992 Bosnia-Herzegovina conflict will receive a new trial. A federal judge ruled this week that prosecutors crossed the line with what they were allowed to bring up during the trial of Edin Sakoc, The Burlington Free Press reported. Sakoc, a Bosnian Muslim who arrived in the United States in 2001, was accused of lying on his citizenship application about his role in a rape and two killings in 1992. The judge said prosecutors made false statements not included in Sakoc’s indictment or any of the government’s statements.

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