Convicted Nazi guard Demjanjuk claims US withheld evidence

[JURIST] Lawyers for convicted Nazi guard John Demjanjuk [NNDB profile; JURIST news archive] filed a request in the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio [official website] for a hearing to determine whether the FBI failed to turn over evidence that could have assisted Demjanjuk’s case. Demjanjuk was convicted in Germany [JURIST report] in May on more than 28,000 counts of accessory to murder [AP report]. Demjanjuk argues that the US government failed to turn over a 1985…