Sri Srinivasan handled a case a few years back where the stakes were especially high. His client, a Palestinian man from Israel, had made a telephone call to buy a small amount of cocaine. But instead of facing a simple drug-buy case, a prosecutor convinced a federal jury to convict Salman Khade Abuelhawa of using a telephone to facilitate a felony.

Abuelhawa appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, but his conviction was upheld.

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