Kilmar Abrego Garcia Could Be Released From Criminal Custody Friday. Here’s What to Know
Kilmar Abrego Garcia faces a human smuggling trial in January while awaiting possible deportation to a third country amid claims of selective prosecution, his lawyers say.
- A U.S. magistrate judge is expected to order the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a Tennessee jail on Friday while he awaits trial on federal human smuggling charges.
- Abrego Garcia's lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the case based on vindictive and selective prosecution, portraying him as a family man and construction worker who was arbitrarily deported and then vindictively charged.
- U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis has prohibited ICE from immediately detaining Abrego Garcia when he's released, as the Trump administration had cast him as an MS-13 gang member and a tireless smuggler of migrants across the country.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be released from criminal custody Friday. Here’s what to know
Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be released from criminal custody as soon as Friday, the latest development in a dramatic legal saga surrounding the wrongly deported Maryland father of three.
·Atlanta, United States
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