MiamiHerald.com: In the Courts http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/index.html MiamiHerald.com: In the Courts 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 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:40:25 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com Prosecutors plan commission case in Cole bombing http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1344664.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1344664.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47 EST Military prosecutors said Friday they plan to seek new charges against the alleged mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. 9/11 trial a death penalty test for NYC juries http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1342310.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1342310.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:21 EST New York juries are often loath to impose the death penalty, even for terrorists. Obama, Holder predict conviction in 9/11 case http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1340106.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1340106.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:43 EST From opposite ends of the globe, President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder firmly rejected criticism Wednesday of the planned New York trial of the professed Sept. 11 mastermind and predicted Khalid Sheik Mohammed would be exposed as a murderous coward, convicted and executed. Military can reassign Guantánamo detainee's lawyers http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1339825.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1339825.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:07 EST The rights of a Guantánamo detainee facing trial in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa were not violated when the military took away his uniformed lawyers, a judge ruled Wednesday. Canada Supreme Court hears Omar Khadr case http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1331792.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1331792.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:30 EST The federal government argued before the Supreme Court Friday that Canadian courts do not have the right to order authorities to seek the repatriation of the youngest detainee held by the U.S. at Guantánamo Bay. Detainee challenges judge to hear habeas petition http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1328635.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1328635.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:31 EST A man from Tajikistan seeking his freedom from the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is challenging a practice among federal judges here who are short-circuiting the cases of some long-time detainees. Supreme Court agrees to consider Guantánamo Uighurs case http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1292295.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1292295.html Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:54 EDT The Supreme Court's decision Tuesday to weigh whether a federal judge has the power to release Guantánamo Bay prisoners into the United States continues a legal tug of war begun when the Bush administration opened the overseas detention camp. Judge sides with U.S. on detainee documents http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1286594.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1286594.html Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:36 EDT A federal judge ruled Friday in a case on detainees at Guantánamo Bay that the U.S. government can maintain the secrecy of portions of some records that allegedly describe torture and abuse. Judge OKs Guantánamo detention of Algerian http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1249875.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1249875.html Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:52 EDT A federal judge has upheld as lawful the indefinite detention of an Algerian accused of being an al Qaeda bomb maker, raising the tally of U.S. government victories in Guantánamo habeas corpus lawsuits to eight. 9/11 mastermind: 'Allah,' not lawyers, will protect me http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1246790.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1246790.html Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:46 EDT Accused al Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheik Mohammed tried to fire his free-of-charge defense attorneys earlier this year in a letter made public Tuesday that declared Allah would defend him. Judge: Free Kuwaiti engineer at Guantánamo http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1239065.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1239065.html Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:38 EDT A federal judge late Thursday ordered the Obama administration to set free a 50-year-old Kuwaiti aeronautics engineer who had been held as a war crimes suspect at Guantánamo since 2002. While defending war court, White House seeks delay http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1236901.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1236901.html Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:43 EDT The Obama administration Wednesday broadly defended as constitutional its predecessor's format for military commissions at Guantánamo but said it would seek to delay next week's sanity hearings in a Sept. 11 case while it revamps its war on terror prosecution strategy. Guantánamo captives winning lawsuits http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1221242.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1221242.html Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:41 EDT In one federal courtroom last month, a defense lawyer argued that the U.S. military had coerced a false confession out of a 50-year-old Kuwaiti who has been at Guantánamo for seven years. Bin Laden aide's Guantánamo conviction appealed http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1214739.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1214739.html Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:33 EDT Pentagon defense lawyers this week appealed the war crimes conviction of Osama bin Laden's media secretary at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on free speech grounds. Judge rules Kuwaiti at Guantánamo was foot soldier http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1212415.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1212415.html Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:28 EDT A federal judge has upheld the military detention of a Kuwaiti man whose lawyers were among the earliest and most persistent challengers of President George W. Bush's right to lock him up as an enemy combatant at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Judge: CIA interrogations not relevant to 9/11 accused's sanity http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1179756.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1179756.html Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:53 EDT U.S. military defense lawyers for accused 9/11 conspirator Ramzi bin al Shibh cannot learn what interrogation techniques CIA agents used on the Yemeni before he was moved to Guantánamo to be tried as a terrorist, an Army judge has ruled. UK judges: Intelligence officer visited Morocco http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1166387.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1166387.html Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:22 EDT A British intelligence officer repeatedly visited Morocco at the same time that a former U.K. resident was allegedly being tortured there, two senior judges said Friday. Judge orders young Guantánamo detainee's release http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1164103.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1164103.html Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:29 EDT A judge ruled Thursday that one of the youngest detainees brought to Guantánamo Bay is being held illegally and must be released.<p/> U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle's order does not end the case of Mohammed Jawad, however. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ian Gershengorn told the judge that as the United States negotiates with the detainee's home country of Afghanistan for his return next month, the Justice Department also is pursuing a criminal investigation. Guantánamo war court faces technological, legal challenges http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1142817.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1142817.html Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:26 EDT The Pentagon plunged forward Wednesday with pretrial hearings against eight detainees in its beleaguered war court system with challenges to both the ongoing terror prosecutions and their remote state-of-the-art technology. Ex-Guantánamo detainee seeks 'black sites' access http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1124201.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1124201.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:38 EDT Lawyers for a Guantánamo detainee charged with terrorism crimes have asked the U.S. government to preserve overseas locations where he was subjected to ''physical and psychological ill-treatment'' at secret CIA prisons known as ''black sites'' until they can inspect them.