Jurors continued deliberating on Friday, Nov. 14, 2008. They took a one-hour lunch break and ended the day by about 3 p.m.
Jurors continued deliberating on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008. They took a one-hour lunch break and ended the day by about 5 p.m.
Jurors began deliberating on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008. They took a one-hour lunch break and ended the day by about 5 p.m.
Closing arguments continued on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008. After many sighs of relief from attorneys and attendees, jurors walked out of the courtroom and into the deliberation room to choose their foreperson. Ironically, the final day of the Holy Land Foundation Retrial fell on Veteran’s Day.
After seeing numerous videos, listening to plenty of wiretapped calls and reading hundreds of documents during the seven-week Holy Land Foundation Retrial, the 10-woman, 2-man jury finally got to hear some closing arguments on Monday, Nov. 10, 2008.
Prosecutor Barry Jonas continued his cross-examination of former HLF accountant Wafa Yaish on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008 by asking him whether the HLF reported their foreign bank accounts to the Internal Revenue Service. Americans are required to file this when dealing with foreign accounts, Jonas said.
Jurors listened intensely and took more notes than ever before on Monday, Nov. 3, 2008 as defense attorneys called their witnesses to the stand. As the seventh week of the Holy Land Foundation Retrial began, the jury received crash courses on Islam and Palestinian culture.
Second Defense Witness
Avi—known to some as the phantom Israeli witness—concluded his testimony on Friday, Oct. 31, 2008. After calling sixteen witnesses and presenting numerous documents, wiretapped phone calls, images and videos, government attorneys finally rested their case Friday afternoon.
