Lee A Spielmann

January 27, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Lee A. Spielmann writes: The passage of time has largely halted prosecutions of those who perpetrated the crimes of the Holocaust. In the United States, the determined effort to expel Nazi perpetrators that began in 1979 has concluded. Its last chapter concerned an Auschwitz guard whose extradition Germany sought but who died this past July.

By Lee A. Spielmann

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January 26, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Lee A. Spielmann writes: The passage of time has largely halted prosecutions of those who perpetrated the crimes of the Holocaust. In the United States, the determined effort to expel Nazi perpetrators that began in 1979 has concluded. Its last chapter concerned an Auschwitz guard whose extradition Germany sought but who died this past July.

By Lee A. Spielmann

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August 13, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Lee A. Spielmann, an assistant regional counsel with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, writes that confusing extradition and deportation implicates properly understanding the significance of the legal proceedings taken in response to Holocaust crimes.

By Lee A. Spielmann

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January 18, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Lee A. Spielmann, an assistant regional counsel with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, reviews a Supreme Court decision which held that an accused Nazi criminal could not invoke the Self-Incrimination Clause in a deportation hearing to protect himself from foreign prosecution, a decision which will help prevent those who participated in other genocides from evading justice.

By Lee A. Spielmann

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June 15, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Lee A. Spielmann, an assistant regional counsel with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, writes that the Seventh Circuit recently precluded a defendant from re-litigating during a deportation proceeding facts concerning his activities as a Nazi collaborator that were established during the antecedent denaturalization trial.

By Lee A. Spielmann

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