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 2008 MiamiHerald.com In the Courts 60 Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:47:22 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/790717.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/790717.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:46 EST A former federal prosecutor who observed Guantánamo Bay military commissions says the proceedings could be held in federal court. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/780984.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/780984.html Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:18 EST A U.S. military judge has blocked Pentagon prosecutors from using a Guantánamo Bay prisoner's statements to U.S. authorities as trial evidence, saying they were tainted by an earlier confession tortured out of the suspect by Afghan officials. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/760990.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/760990.html Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:48 EST Seven years after their capture, six Algerian men denied Thursday they planned to fight with al Qaeda and asked to be released from prison in the first case of suspected terrorists challenging their detention at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/748989.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/748989.html Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:08 EDT A war court judge has flatly refused a Pentagon effort to revisit the soon-to-expire prison sentence of Osama bin Laden's driver at the first U.S. war crimes tribunal since World War II. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/746970.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/746970.html Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:07 EDT Osama bin Laden's media secretary joined military jurors Wednesday watching his handiwork -- a crude two-hour recruiting video that spliced gory Muslim suffering with exhortations to holy war offered to prove the filmmaker committed war crimes. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/745587.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/745587.html Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:28 EDT In a first, a military judge ruled on Tuesday that a Guantánamo detainee's confession was extracted through torture, and excluded it from the trial of a young Afghan detainee at the war court. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/718826.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/718826.html Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:46 EDT A federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily blocked a judge's decision to immediately free 17 Chinese Muslims at Guantánamo Bay into the United States. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/717389.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/717389.html Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:02 EDT A federal judge ordered the U.S. government Tuesday to release and transfer to the United States 17 China-born Muslims detained for almost seven years at Guantánamo. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/699348.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/699348.html Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:58 EDT Confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed called his military commission an ''inquisition'' Wednesday in a failed effort to get his military judge to stop presiding at the 9/11 mass murder trial. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/700445.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/700445.html Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:35 EDT An Army prosecutor has resigned from the Guantánamo war court in a crisis of conscience over plans to try a young Afghan accused of throwing a grenade rather than settle the case out of court, according to an affidavit filed with the court Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/698924.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/698924.html Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:18 EDT The military judge presiding at the Sept. 11 war crimes trial revealed that he is a Christian -- but would not discuss torture -- during questioning directly from the reputed al Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheik Mohammed on Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/698448.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/698448.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:45 EDT The chief judge for military commissions disclosed Tuesday at the war court that he will retire from the U.S. Marine Corps in seven months and may not preside over the full Sept. 11, 2001, mass murder terror trial. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/697457.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/697457.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:49 EDT What to do with Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's driver, illustrates how much the Pentagon is still improvising war-on-terror detention policy -- six years after the Bush administration opened the prison camps in remote southeast Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/697187.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/697187.html Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:35 EDT Alleged 9/11 go-between Ramzi bin al Shibh refused to leave his prison camp cell Monday, prompting a day-long standoff on how to hold a pretrial hearing in the complex capital conspiracy case. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/693830.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/693830.html Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:06 EDT The Defense Department strips a controversial can-do general of legal authority at military commissions but creates for him a job as war court czar in charge of logistics from the Pentagon to Guantánamo. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/691293.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/691293.html Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:28 EDT For six years, and for no pay, Dennis Edney has represented Omar Khadr, one of the next prisoners at Guantánamo Bay to face trial in a military tribunal system that the lawyer calls a sham. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/688669.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/688669.html Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:24 EDT The Pentagon Tuesday announced a Nov. 10 war crimes trial date for alleged Canadian teen terrorist Omar Khadr, meaning the terror murder trial will follow both the U.S. and Canada's elections and likely straddle American Thanksgiving. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/672453.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/672453.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:00 EDT A military judge in the case of a Canadian captive at Guantánamo on Thursday again banned a general at the Pentagon from acting as a legal advisor because of a perception that he favors the prosecution. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/644055.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/644055.html Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:24 EDT An alleged al Qaeda filmmaker with a flair for the dramatic set the stage for the first no-contest war crimes trial Friday by declaring a boycott until he is sentenced. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/642000.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/642000.html Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:25 EDT For a second time, a military judge Thursday barred a U.S. general at the Pentagon from acting as a legal advisor in the trial of an accused terrorist at the Guantánamo war court.