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A three-judge panel of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, vacated the 1998 conviction of five Cubans charged with serving as unregistered agents of a foreign government, in effect, espionage (see NotiCen, 2001-06-21). The judges have been mulling the conviction since hearing the appeal in March 2004. Their decision to reverse the lower court was unanimous.
The defendants, Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Guerrero, and Fernando Gonzalez, will very likely now be tried anew, but not in Miami, where the judges determined they did not get a fair trial the first time around. Hernandez had been given a double life sentence plus 15 years, Rene Gonzalez 15 years, Labanino life plus 18 years, Guerrero life plus 10 years, Fernando Gonzalez...
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