A former Florida college professor at the center of a celebrated terrorism prosecution, Sami Al-Arian, saw a federal appeals court dash his hopes for relief today, only to have the same court revive them a short time later.
the aclu hero got disappointment.
Last month, a three-judge panel of the Richmond, Va.-based 4th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a contempt order issued against Al-Arian after he refused to testify before a grand jury investigating Muslim charities in Northern Virginia
