Think Progress (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
In March 2007, Australian native David Hicks, who was a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, became the first person to be sentenced by a military commission convened under the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Last February, Col. Morris Davis, the lead prosecutor in Hicks’ trial, told the Australian that the Pentagon “leaned on” him to rush [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... international covenant on civil and political rights. The former chief prosecutor at Guantánamo, Morris Davis, resigned in February, saying he had significant doubts whether the system could deliver full, fair and open hearings. Evidence obtained under torture will be admitted and secret evidence not known to the defence will be used, which cannot be challenged in court. The detainees...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... evidence obtained during interrogations at Guantánamo should also be disallowed.Air Force Colonel Morris Davis, who resigned last year as the chief prosecutor for military commissions after he refused to introduce evidence obtained by coercion, said the judge's decision to exclude evidence obtained during coercive interrogations set an important precedent. Col Davis pointed...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
... don't take my word for it. Listen to the former chief prosecutor at the commissions, Colonel Morris Davis, who resigned last October after he "concluded that full, fair and open trials were not possible under the current system." Davis said it was "absolutely critical to the legitimacy of the military commissions that they be conducted in an atmosphere of honesty and impartiality,"...
