The former Libyan intelligence agent convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland in 1988 won an important victory Wednesday in his long-running battle to have his conviction overturned.
Judge Arthur Hamilton ruled that Abdel Basset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi can make a wide-ranging appeal against his conviction. Prosecutors had wanted an appeal to focus on fewer points.
Al-Megrahi was convicted of the bombing by a special Scottish court in a trial held in the Netherlands in 2001. He was sentenced to at least 22 years in prison.
He lost an initial appeal in 2002. But last year the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission ruled that he should …
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