<p>Michael David Meeks speaks to reporters with his lawyers after being acquitted of charges connected to the Hutaree Militia at the Theodore Levin U.S. courthouse in Detroit on Tuesday, March 27, 2012. A federal judge on Tuesday gutted the government's case against seven members of a U.S. militia, dismissing the most serious charges in an extraordinary defeat for federal authorities who insisted they had captured homegrown rural extremists poised for war. (AP Photo/De…
March 28, 2012
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Militia members cleared of conspiracy
DETROIT - A federal judge on Tuesday gutted the government's case against seven members of a Michigan militia, dismissing the most serious charges in an extraordinary defeat for federal authorities who insisted they had captured homegrown rural extremists poised for war.