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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... no detainee had been tried for any offense. As Hamdan's trial began, the military judge, Capt. Keith J. Allred of the Navy, quickly seated a panel of six senior military officers to act as a jury. Hamdan, a Yemeni, pleaded not guilty to charges of taking part in a conspiracy by al-Qaeda and providing material support for terrorism. Opening statements are scheduled for today. Allred...
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National Review Online (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
... the way for the commencement of proceedings, perhaps as early as Monday. The decisions by Captain Keith J. Allred, and District Judge James Robertson turned aside various constitutional challenges, including Hamdan’s most significant claim: that the trial would run afoul of the Supreme Court’s June 12 ruling in Boumediene v. Bush, which invalidated key combatant-detention provisions...
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Watching Those We Chose (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
... for terrorism have traditionally been considered violations of the law of war,'' Navy Capt. Keith J. Allred, a judge, wrote in the six-page ruling. Defense lawyers called the decision a marginal victory because, as they interpreted it, Allred agreed to consider their ex post facto argument as a U.S. constitutional issue — before he rejected it. Psych! You get nothing! ExxonMobil...
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Osama bin Laden’s chauffeur, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, left, appears with appointed council Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, right, during a preliminary hearing at Gitmo, Aug. 24, 2004. (Credit: AP/Pool, Art Lein) On Monday, Navy Captain Keith J. Allred will oversee the first U.S. military commission in more than half a century, when Salim Ahmed Hamdan — Osama [...]
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Los Angeles Times (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
... that the United States has," Justice Department prosecutor Clayton Trivett said.But Navy Capt. Keith J. Allred, the military judge hearing the case, said that Mohammed and the other men also appeared to have knowledge of events that could favor Hamdan, who has insisted for years that he was merely a driver for Bin Laden who needed the work and never engaged in, or knew about, terrorist...
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
... that the United States has," Justice Department prosecutor Clayton Trivett said.But Navy Capt. Keith J. Allred, the military judge hearing the case, said that Mohammed and the other men also appeared to have knowledge of events that could favor Hamdan, who has insisted for years that he was merely a driver for Bin Laden who needed the work and never engaged in, or knew about, terrorist...
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SCOTUSblog (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
... to await the Court’s ruling in Boumediene . Under a ruling Thursday by the judge, Navy Captain Keith J. Allred, Hamdan’s defense lawyers are to file their motions making constitutional claims by July 2, and, depending on how those motions fare, the trial could start on July 21 — the first criminal trial growing out of the “war on terrorism.” Allred rejected the plea of the...
