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Man Acquitted in Terror Case Faces Deportation

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"I regret that I went along with taking the so-called oath," Lemorin said from Georgia. "It was right after that, I left."

He stopped going to the group's meetings. He and Charlene moved to Atlanta, where they took jobs at an Abercrombie and Fitch at a mall.

"He kind of distanced himself from the group," noted Agron, the jury foreman; it was a key factor in the decision to acquit him.

Roughly two months after he and his wife left Miami, however, Lemorin was arrested.

Months later, Charlene gave birth prematurely to his third child, but the baby died. Charlene now has kidney disease and is awaiting a transplant.

"The children wonder whether they will ever see their father again," she said. "It just doesn't seem right."

Asked about the most difficult part of his incarceration, Lemorin said: "I just feel like I should be there for my family. They've been going through a lot."

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