http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com In the Courts 60 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:11:03 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1130050.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1130050.html Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:44 EDT Lawyers for an alleged Sept. 11 plotter held at Guantánamo want to inspect secret CIA overseas prisons, saying in court papers Monday the conditions in the so-called black sites may yield insight into a mental disorder that has raised questions about whether he is competent to stand trial. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1123466.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1123466.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:07 EDT Attorneys for a Guantánamo Bay prisoner asked a federal judge Wednesday to exclude as evidence against him the statements he made during at least 57 interrogations since his capture, saying they were the result of torture and other coercion. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1119848.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1119848.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:29 EDT A federal judge who issued a groundbreaking order allowing military detainees in Afghanistan to go to U.S. civilian courts to challenge their confinement said Monday that the right doesn't apply to an Afghan prisoner. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1083010.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1083010.html Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:00 EDT Attorneys for 17 Muslims from China locked up inside a prison camp at Guantánamo asked the U.S. Supreme Court Friday to take on the case of the men whom a judge ordered set free eight months ago. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1064986.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1064986.html Tue, 26 May 2009 07:04 EDT President Barack Obama is still deciding whether to go to federal court with the death penalty cases against five men accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a Defense Department official has notified the thousands of victim family members. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1056293.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1056293.html Tue, 19 May 2009 22:58 EDT The chief judge for the Pentagon's Military Commissions has bowed to a White House request and postponed until late September a war court hearing at Guantánamo Bay for a Saudi man accused of aiding al Qaeda, according to a document obtained by The Miami Herald. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1042070.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1042070.html Sun, 10 May 2009 23:10 EDT The chief of the Pentagon war court has spurned a defense request for delay and ordered a Military Commission hearing that will address the issue of torture to go forward after Memorial Day at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1014803.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1014803.html Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:36 EDT A Tunisian man detained after the Sept. 11 attacks was tortured at CIA-operated secret prisons in Afghanistan months before a Justice Department memo sanctioned the practices, a lawsuit filed Thursday alleges. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1014361.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1014361.html Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:37 EDT A Canadian Federal Court judge ruled Thursday that Prime Minister Stephen Harper must press the United States to return a Canadian citizen who is the last Western detainee at Guantánamo Bay. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/998941.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/998941.html Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:34 EDT A Spanish judge has asked the United States, Britain and three other countries about the whereabouts of an alleged senior al Qaeda member who was captured in Pakistan in 2005, a court official said Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/990038.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/990038.html Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:02 EDT A federal appeals court overturned on Tuesday a judge's decision to give 17 Chinese citizens, now detained at Guantánamo Bay, 30 days notice of where the U.S. government will send them when they are released. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/987072.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/987072.html Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:54 EDT Muslims from China now held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, asked the Supreme Court on Monday to order their release into the United States. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/890339.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/890339.html Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:52 EST The Obama administration moved Thursday to confront growing controversy over its efforts to alter Bush-era terror policies, inviting victims of al Qaeda attacks to meet with the president at the White House on Friday even as it withdrew charges against an alleged al Qaeda plotter held at Guantánamo. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/889840.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/889840.html Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:51 EST An Army judge who is defying a White House request to freeze the Pentagon's war court ruled Thursday that he would decide at next week's hearing at Guantánamo whether the military's security measures impaired a captive's ability to defend himself. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/879325.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/879325.html Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:55 EST The chief of the Guantánamo war court Thursday spurned President Barack Obama's request to freeze the military commissions trying war-on-terror captives, and said he would hold a hearing next month for an alleged USS Cole bomber in a capital terror case. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/868133.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/868133.html Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:42 EST A former U.S. attorney who was among nine fired by the Bush administration in 2006 has been working as a prosecutor of suspected terrorists at Guantánamo. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/861963.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/861963.html Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:53 EST Two former CIA-held captives boasted of their role in the 9/11 attacks Monday, as the Pentagon's war-crimes court convened for perhaps its final session on the eve of President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/861104.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/861104.html Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:40 EST Guards shackled 9/11 terror suspect Ramzi bin al Shibh to the courtroom floor and suspect Khalid Sheik Mohammed again said he welcomed death Monday as the U.S. government sought to press ahead with its showcase war crimes trial on the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/857601.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/857601.html Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:50 EST In a surprise move Friday, reflecting uncertainty in the future of President Bush's war court, the Pentagon prosecutor sought -- and lost -- a late-night bid to delay next week's terror hearings that straddle the inauguration of Barack Obama. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/853264.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/853264.html Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:48 EST A federal judge has ordered the military to release a Guantánamo Bay detainee who was arrested in Pakistan when he was 14.