NEFA Foundation Library of HLF Retrial Exhibits Now Available

By Evan Kohlmann

Between July and September 2007, prosecutors in the case against the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) and its top officials released scores of exhibits that provide unprecedented insight into the dizzying web of connections tying together a handful of alleged Hamas front groups that operated on American soil throughout the 1990s and beyond, serving as a central node in the Muslim Brotherhood's U.S. network. NEFA Senior Analyst Josh Lefkowitz reviewed this treasure trove of documents and highlighted select exhibits. That library of exhibits from the first HLF trial is available here.

On October 22, 2007, after 19 days of deliberation, a jury failed to convict the defendants of a single charge against them. However that decision was quickly thrown into limbo when three jurors indicated during polling that they disagreed with the verdict that had just been rendered. U.S. District Judge Joe A. Fish told jurors, "Your verdict must be unanimous and it's apparent to me from the answers of three members of the jury in respect to my question that the verdicts that I read earlier do not represent the unanimous view of the jury." The jury was ordered to continue deliberations. Following an additional 45 minutes of deliberation, the jurors informed Judge Fish that they could not reach a unanimous decision, and he declared a mistrial.

In September 2008, the second Holy Land Foundation trial began -- and once again the NEFA Foundation has begun to catalog the exhibits released during those proceedings. The new set of HLF exhibits can be viewed here.

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