The Justice Department may have hoodwinked former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian into thinking his plea bargain on terrorism charges would protect him from further prosecutions, a federal judge said Monday. ...more

March 10, 2009

The Justice Department may have hoodwinked former USF professor Sami Al-Arian in into thinking his plea bargain would protect him from prosecutions, a federal judge said. ...more

March 9, 2009

Sami Al-Arian has lost a bid to have the U.S. Supreme Court consider his case. ...more

October 6, 2008

In the immortal words of Agent 86 Maxwell Smart, Sami Al-Arian "missed it by that much," in an effort to get out of the hoosegow earlier this week. ...more

July 17, 2008

A federal judge in Virginia has granted bail for Sami Al-Arian while he awaits a trial in August on contempt charges. But it was unclear whether Al-Arian will be released from custody, because government authorities are still trying to hold him in immigration detention pending his deportation, according to a blog post by Jonathan Turley, one of Al-Arian's attorneys. ...more

July 10, 2008

TAMPA – Attorneys for Sami Al-Arian are asking a federal judge in Virginia to release the former University of South Florida professor on bail while he awaits trial on charges of criminal contempt. Al-Arian has completed his federal sentence for helping a terrorist group, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, but is still behind bars because he refused to testify before a federal grand jury investigating Islamic charities in Virginia. ...more

July 9, 2008

Former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian was arraigned Monday on two charges of criminal contempt for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury in Virginia. ...more

July 1, 2008

Former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian was arraigned this afternoon on two charges of criminal contempt for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury in Virginia. ...more

June 30, 2008

A former University of South Florida student has agreed to plead guilty to a charge he provided support to terrorists when he posted an Internet video showing how to detonate a bomb with a remote-controlled toy, according to a plea agreement entered in the case Friday. ...more

June 14, 2008

One juror, a white woman, was trying to convince the others that the murder victim had been bruised during a struggle, not during consensual sex with the defendant. Bruises like those, the juror supposedly said, can happen "when a big black guy beats up on a small woman." ...more

January 4, 2008