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The Daily OrangeReview commission reopens Pan Am 103 terror case
Flight killed 35 SU students almost 19 years ago
By Katie Walsh
Posted: 6/28/07, 3:16 PM EST Section: News
JUNE 28, 3:09 P.M. - The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission granted a second appeal Thursday for Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence official convicted of bombing Pan Am 103, according to the BBC.
Pan Am flight 103 was en route from London to New York when it exploded over Lockerbie on Dec. 21, 1988. Two hundred and seventy people were killed, including 35 Syracuse University students.
The commission, which is an independent judicial review body, has been examining the evidence presented in Megrahi's trial and said in a statement that "the applicant may have suffered a miscarriage of justice," according to the New York Times.
Megrahi is currently serving a 27-year prison sentence, but could go free on second appeal. According to the BBC, three Scottish judges will hear the appeal in about a year.
Return to dailyorange.com for updates.
Pan Am flight 103 was en route from London to New York when it exploded over Lockerbie on Dec. 21, 1988. Two hundred and seventy people were killed, including 35 Syracuse University students.
The commission, which is an independent judicial review body, has been examining the evidence presented in Megrahi's trial and said in a statement that "the applicant may have suffered a miscarriage of justice," according to the New York Times.
Megrahi is currently serving a 27-year prison sentence, but could go free on second appeal. According to the BBC, three Scottish judges will hear the appeal in about a year.
Return to dailyorange.com for updates.
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Michael Cherry
posted 7/23/07 @ 3:06 PM EST
I had believed that a conspiracy was in the works since 1985 about other airplane crashes. I had gone to the FBI in 1986. The Special Prosecutor in the Iran Contra Affair in 1987. (Continued…)
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