Federal prosecutors dropped all L.A. 8 charges after twenty years.

Evidence

After twenty years, the L.A. 8 case has finally come to a close in 2007. The federal government, after suffering a harsh rebuke from an immigration judge (who called the case “an embarrassment to the rule of law” and accused the government of “‘gross failure’ to comply with instructions to turn over to the men ‘potentially exculpatory and other relevant information’”), dropped all charges against the last two of the L.A. 8. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 1152

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: the L.A. 8 case as a two-decade cautionary tale of prosecutorial overreach in immigration enforcement — the judge’s own words (‘embarrassment to the rule of law’) give a ready hook.