Demjanjuk trial canceled for second day in a row after defendant hospitalized with chest pains
By APWednesday, May 19, 2010
Demjanjuk still ill; trial postponed for 2nd day
MUNICH — John Demjanjuk’s trial has been called off for the second day in a row as the defendant remained hospitalized after complaining of chest pains.
The 90-year-old former autoworker from Ohio is being tried on charges of with 27,900 counts of accessory to murder on allegations he was a guard at the Nazi’s Sobibor death camp in occupied Poland.
Demjanjuk suffers from numerous health problems and was hospitalized in a university clinic Tuesday after complaining of chest pains.
Presiding Judge Ralph Alt said Wednesday that doctors told him that Demjanjuk did not show signs of a heart attack but was being treated for dangerously low hemoglobin levels.
Alt says he has been told that Demjanjuk should be able to return to court Thursday.
