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Attorneys for a Kansas man accused of
participating in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda have asked a federal
judge to ask Rwandan authorities to release a Minnesota professor
from prison.


      Defense attorneys for Lazare Kobagaya
said in a motion filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Wichita
that they need testimony from Peter Erlinder for Kobagaya's defense
in Kansas.


      Kobagaya is scheduled for trial in October on charges of fraud
and unlawfully obtaining U.S. citizenship in 2006. He faces
deportation if convicted.


      Erlinder is a professor at William Mitchell College of Law in
St. Paul, Minn. He was arrested May 28 while in Rwanda to help with
the legal defense of an opposition leader.
      
  
      (Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)

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Attorneys for a Kansas man accused of
participating in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda have asked a federal
judge to ask Rwandan authorities to release a Minnesota professor
from prison.


Kan. suspect seeks release of Erlinder

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