Friday, March 18, 2011
MUNICH
A German court on Thursday closed the evidentiary phase in the trial of John Demjanjuk, who is accused of serving as a guard at the Nazi’s Sobibor death camp, rejecting a raft of defense motions and setting the stage for closing arguments to begin next week.
Demjanjuk, 90, is accused of 28,060 counts of accessory to murder for allegedly having been a guard at the camp in occupied Poland. The retired Ohio autoworker denies the charges, saying he never served the Nazis in any camp.
A verdict had been expected as early as mid-March, but defense attorney Ulrich Busch flooded the court with motions over the last month requesting new evidence and witnesses.
The judges dismissed all the motions — more than 350 — saying that many were issues that were already resolved in court and that others were more statements than requests.
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