A defense attorney for accused Nazi war criminal Karl Linnas argued before an appeals court Monday that a lower court decision ordering that his client be deported to the Soviet Union for war crimes would amount to pushing “himover the border to be shot.” Linnas has been sentenced to death in absentia by the Soviet Union for his war crimes. The Appeals Court reserved decision on the case.
The attorney, Ivars Berzins, spoke before the three judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, hearing arguments in the case of Linnas, a 66-year-old Long Island resident accused by the U.S. government of being a former commandant of the Nazi concentration camp in Tartu, Estonia, who was ordered deported in 1985.
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