December 04, 2009

Illegal Arab Wants Alias Used in Rape Trial

(Bucks County, Pennsylvania) In May 2009, a 37-year-old Jordanian national, illegally in the U.S., Khalid Altawarh (aka David Shookby), was arrested for allegedly kidnapping, robbing, beating, raping, and torturing a woman for three hours.

Altawarh took the name Shookby when he arrived in the U.S. in 1996 and he has now asked a Bucks County judge to allow his alias to be used during his trial.

[Altawarh] worries that jurors might be biased against a person of Middle Eastern descent and associate him with terrorism.

The judge ruled Thursday that using an alias in court could result in legal problems.

Altawarh awaits his trial in jail, unable to scrape together $2 million in bail. (More ....)

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