Right to a Fair and Speedy Trial? Five Years Later, Gitmo Detainees Finally Charged
Today the by the military commission's Convening Authority, Susan Crawford. The DOD accuses these detainees of planning and executing the 9/11 attacks.
Among those detainees is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, whom the . Mohammed was detained by U.S. forces for five years before being allowed to speak to a lawyer.
But while these charges were announced today, there's still no plan to allow these detainees access to counsel. David Nevin and Scott McKay, two highly accomplished criminal defense lawyers with years of experience representing defendants in challenging cases, have yet to receive final security clearance from the DoD to represent Mohammed. Nevin and McKay would represent Mohammed on behalf of the 老澳门开奖结果 and effort, the John Adams Project, in which we are assembling legal teams to be available to assist in the representation of Guantanamo detainees charged in the Bush administration's military commissions.
Under the rules of the military commission proceedings, the five detainees will be arraigned in 30 days.
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