John Demjanjuk (known disparagingly as: "Ivan the Terrible"), of
Cleveland,
Ohio, was convicted of
war crimes, in
1986. In
1983, the
6th US Circuit Court of Appeals[?] ruled that Demjanjuk was a victim of
prosecutorial misconduct (as
federal prosecutors had deliberately withheld
evidence) and his
sentence was overturned. In the meantime, Demjanjuk had been stripped of his
citizenship and been extradited to
Israel; from which he returned following a decision by the
Supreme Court of Israel[?].