Judge moves legal case of detained Tufts student
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In a 26-page ruling, US District Judge Denise Casper denied the government’s motion to dismiss Öztürk’s petition for release and its alternative request to transfer the case to Louisiana.
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Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was taken by immigration officials as she walked along a street in the Boston suburb of Somerville on March 25.
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Ozturk was suddenly arrested by plainclothes federal agents Tuesday in an incident captured by a surveillance camera.
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