The appeals for indicted Dr. John Reece Roth, former University of Tennessee Professor, that have dragged out for years have now come to a final conclusion. On October 3, 2011, the US Supreme Court decided not to hear his case.
Roth, now 73, will likely serve his four-year sentence in a minimum security prison close to his family near Knoxville, TN. He is eligible for early release after serving 86% of his term. Additionally, he may be allowed to spend the last 6 months of his sentence in a halfway house.
According to prosecutors Jeff Theodore and Will Mackie, Roth repeatedly and arrogantly ignored warnings because he disagreed with the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) restrictions. Roth and his lawyers countered he was merely ignorant of the law and that the AECA and ITAR only applied to finished products and not to those in research and development.
If your organization does any work with academic institutions and/or research and development facilities, you need to be well up-to-speed on what happened here. Dr. Roth has been and remains “the example” to point to regarding knowing and willful violations of the AECA and ITAR in the academic arena and what ultimately happens to those who intentionally violate the law.
An updated version of the one-page Indictment Summary is available on my Linked in Homepage in the “View Full Profile” mode at http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnpriecko. Scroll down to SlideShare Presentations and click on “October 10th Dr. John Reece Roth Updated Indictment Summary.” A copy is also available online at http://www.scribd.com/doc/68421595/Dr-John-Reece-Roth-Updated-Indictment-Summary-101011.
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