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PLEASE HELP TUAN LE Fellow Vietnamese Americans,
Please spare a moment to help
Jerry Kiley and Tuan Le. This only takes a minute and together your email
or phone call can save Tuan Le from being deported to
Vietnam. Also ask
your friends and family members to email or call.
Please email or call the
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales at:
The Department of Justice, the Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales,
may be sent to
AskDOJ@usdoj.gov.
Or call the Attorney
General Alberto R. Gonzales at:
U.S.
Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW
Washington,
DC 20530-0001
Office of the Attorney
General - 202-353-1555
Tuan Le was fathered by a US Soldier so he is naturally a
US
citizen and should be protected by the US Constitution. The status “legal
permanent resident” is wrong and should not apply to Tuan Le.
You can find more about
Assistant U.S. Attorney Bruce Hegyi here:
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Mental tests for man who hit envoy
By Gary Emerling
THE
WASHINGTON TIMES
October 23, 2005
A Vietnamese immigrant accused of punching a
high-ranking Vietnamese diplomat visiting
Washington this summer will undergo a
psychiatric evaluation to determine whether his actions resulted from being
tortured as a child under the communist regime.
"I know enough about Tuan Le so far to know that there is a possible
psychiatric defense," Kenneth M. Robinson, Mr. Le's new defense attorney,
told U.S. District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle at a status hearing last week.
Mr. Robinson must have his client evaluated and submit a report to
the court by Dec. 2. If Mr. Le's attorneys determine their client has a
psychiatric or psychological disorder -- particularly one that would make
him not competent to stand trial -- federal prosecutors have the right to
detain Mr. Le for up to 60 days for their own evaluation.
Mr. Le, 33, of
Atlanta, is accused of punching in the face
Nguyen Quoc Huy, vice chairman of the prime minister's office for the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam, during a June 21 protest at the Willard
InterContinental Hotel, according to filings in U.S. District Court in the
District.
He has been charged with assault on a foreign official and faces up
to three years in prison and deportation to Vietnam if found guilty.
Mr. Robinson said Mr. Le, who emigrated to the
United States in
1993 and is a legal permanent resident, is the son of a black U.S. soldier
who was killed in action during the Vietnam War. He said his client was
taunted and tortured by North Vietnamese communists in the years following
the conflict.
"Any of these, what they would call 'half-breeds,' were treated
worse than, say, a white soldier's baby," Mr. Robinson said. "They were very
abusive of him and his family and other kids like him."
During one instance, when Mr. Le was about 5, Mr. Robinson said,
communist soldiers ordered him to dance. When the child refused, he said,
the soldiers stuck bayonets through the backs of his heels, which kept him
from walking for more than a year.
Mr. Robinson also said security guards with the communist officials
recognized Mr. Le during the protest in June and began taunting him.
"They really singled him out and were really giving it to him," he
said. "He just lost control."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Bruce Hegyi, who is prosecuting the case,
said he could not comment on the evaluation proceedings.
Mr. Robinson replaced federal public defender
David Bos. The case has attracted support from the Vietnamese community in
the United
States, which has established a fund to help pay Mr. Le's legal fees.
Mr. Le also faces deportation based on a
conviction for assault in
California. Mr. Le's Vienna, Va.-based
immigration lawyer, Parastoo Zahedi, said she plans to argue that Mr. Le
has claims to being a U.S. citizen and should not be deported.
Veteran faces new charge in
Vietnam protest
By Gary Emerling
THE
WASHINGTON TIMES
November 19, 2005
A Vietnam War veteran acquitted of trying to
harass the Vietnamese prime minister in June will be tried on a new charge
due to pressure from the U.S. Secret Service and
Vietnam's communist government,
the veteran's defense attorney says.
Jerry Kiley, 59, of
Garnerville, N.Y., was found
not guilty earlier this month in U.S. District Court in the District of a
federal charge of trying to harass or intimidate a foreign official.
Mr. Kiley had thrown a glass of wine at
Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai's chair during a June dinner hosted
by the U.S.-Vietnam Trade Council and the U.S. Association of Southeast
Asian Nations Business Council in
Washington.
His attorney, Kenneth Robinson, said this week that federal
prosecutors told him after the trial that Mr. Kiley will be charged with
unlawful entry.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Bruce Hegyi "said that the Secret Service
and the Vietnamese Embassy were furious [about the acquittal]," Mr. Robinson
said. "They're putting pressure on, and as a result of that pressure the
Justice Department appears to be doing something very unusual."
The unlawful entry charge, a misdemeanor, would be filed in D.C.
Superior Court. If convicted, Mr. Kiley would face a maximum sentence of six
months in prison.
Mr. Hegyi, who prosecuted the case, said his office "has not been
subjected to pressure from the Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
or any member of the Vietnamese government to pursue additional charges
against Mr. Kiley."
Secret Service officials refused to comment. Officials at the
Vietnamese Embassy could not be reached for comment.
Mr. Kiley was arrested and originally charged June 21 after sneaking
into a banquet at the Mayflower Hotel.
After slipping past security provided by the Secret Service, he ate
a chicken dinner worth $1,000 before approaching Mr. Khai, officials said.
According to his own account of the incident,
Mr. Kiley threw wine in the prime minister's direction and accused Mr. Khai
of killing religious leaders in
Vietnam. He also called U.S. Sen. John McCain,
the Arizona Republican who had introduced Mr. Khai, a traitor.
In his trial Nov. 9, Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson acquitted
Mr. Kiley of attempting to harass, coerce or intimidate a foreign official.
Mr. Kiley -- who has been dubbed the "stealth
activist" -- has slipped past Secret Service security for Vietnamese
functions on three occasions, including a 1993 banquet at
New York's Plaza Hotel that Mr.
Khai also attended.
In that incident, Mr. Kiley donned an American Legion hat, held a
POW flag and shook Mr. Khai's hand.
His case attracted support from the U.S. Vietnamese community, many
of whom suffered under the communist regime.
A defense fund established for Mr. Kiley and Tuan Le, a Vietnamese
immigrant accused of punching a Vietnamese diplomat during the June
protests, raised $55,000.
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