Judge considers booting adviser and lawyers from case due to allegation of jihad preaching
Federal prosecutors claim a law grad advising defense lawyers in an ISIS recruitment case may have preached about jihad.
The claim by the prosecutors of Mohamed Farah, who is accused of providing material support to ISIS, has led the judge to order a hearing into whether any members of the defense team should be disqualified, report the Minneapolis Star Tribune and KSTP.com.
U.S. District Judge Michael Davis scheduled the hearing for Friday and ordered prosecutors to file a motion outlining whether there are grounds to disqualify the defense lawyers or the adviser, Sheikh Hassan Jami.
Davis issued the order (PDF) as a result of the government’s March 25 notice that it planned to introduce evidence at trial that Jami “is referenced by a co-conspirator apparently preaching about jihad and related topics.”
Jami graduated from the William Mitchell College of Law in 2002 and is an adjunct professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law.
