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Key Convertino trial witness lied Defense pounces on admission http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071011/NEWS06/710110347 October 11, 2007 BY JOE SWICKARD FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER The lead witness against a former assistant U.S. attorney and a former State Department agent charged with hiding evidence in a 2003 terrorism trial takes the stand this morning with an extra burden: He has admitted he lied when he testified this week. On Wednesday, Justice Department prosecutors revealed that the witness, former Jordanian security agent Samir Jarandogha, wasn't truthful during a pretrial hearing Tuesday. Defense attorneys pounced on the admission. Thomas Cranmer, codefendant Ray Smith's lawyer, told jurors that the case against Richard Convertino and Smith is suspect when the prosecutors "never discovered their star witness is a liar." "I hope you understand the enormity and gravity" of the situation, Cranmer said in his opening statement in U.S. District Court in Detroit. Without the jury present, Daniel Schwager, prosecuting the case for the Justice Department, told U.S. District Judge Arthur Tarnow that Jarandogha didn't tell the truth Tuesday about his refusal to meet with defense lawyers. Jarandogha -- who was the liaison between Jordanian authorities and U.S. Embassy security agents -- testified that he decided not to meet the defense team after calling his lawyer in Jordan. He testified that the lawyer said such a meeting required a court order. That call was not made, Schwager told the judge after his opening statement and the opening statement of Convertino's lawyer, William Sullivan. When court resumed, Cranmer wasted little time telling jurors that Jarandogha was caught in "a bald-faced lie." Schwager and Justice Department officials in Washington declined to comment. Outside court, Sullivan said the development proved his characterization of the case as an "irresponsible prosecution." "They admit there was false testimony ... just one day before the trial starts," he said. Convertino and Smith are being tried on obstruction of justice charges for allegedly concealing photos of the area surrounding the Queen Alia Military Hospital from defendants in a 2003 federal terrorism trial of four north Africans in Detroit. The government says the photos would have undercut the reliability of a supposed targeting sketch found in a Detroit apartment raid just days after 9/11. Three men were convicted, but acting on a request from the U.S. Attorney's Office, U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen overturned the verdicts. Contact JOE SWICKARD at 313-222-8769. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. 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