The World - News from May 12, 1987

An Israeli judge in the Nazi war crimes trial of John Demjanjuk angrily cut off the retired U.S. auto worker’s American defense attorney when he accused a documents expert of giving false testimony. Presiding Judge Dov Levine ordered the attorney, Mark O’Connor, to sit down, adding: “This is not the way to talk to a witness.” O’Connor had accused Gideon Epstein of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, who was the sixth expert witness to authenticate a key piece of prosecution evidence, a Nazi SS identity card issued in Demjanjuk’s name. The defense claims the card was forged by the Soviets, who supplied it to Israel for the trial.