Lawyers in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington committed “egregious misconduct” in their handling of discovery in a lawsuit that challenges how the Federal Bureau of Prisons treats inmates classified as terrorists, a judge said this week.
Randall Todd Royer, also known as Ismail Royer, is serving a 20-year prison sentence after he admitted helping individuals gain access to a terrorist training camp in Pakistan. He was housed in the general prison population for the first 3 1/2 years of his confinement, but claims he was subjected to more restrictive conditions after prison officials designated him as a “terrorist inmate” in late 2006.
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