Expert witness in Demjanjuk case testifies incriminating documents appear genuine
By APTuesday, June 8, 2010
Demjanjuk expert: documents appear genuine
BERLIN — A former U.S. Secret Service forensics expert says documents being used by the prosecution against John Demjanjuk appear genuine.
Demjanjuk is a former Ohio autoworker being tried on 27,900 counts of accessory to murder on allegations he was a guard at the Nazi’s Sobibor death camp.
Though Demjanjuk denies ever serving as a camp guard, the prosecution has presented a Nazi-issued identity card as evidence that they say has Demjanjuk’s picture on it and indicates he was a guard at Sobibor.
Demjanjuk’s defense team maintains the card is a fake.
But Larry Stewart testified that his analysis is that the card and 21 other documents in the case “appear to be original.”
He examined them in 2000 for the U.S. Justice Department.
