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JURIST (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
[JURIST] A military judge Friday delayed the military commission trial of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan until July. On Thursday, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit rejected a bid by Hamdan to postpone the start of his military commission until the Supreme Court rules in the consolidated cases of Boumediene v. Bush (06-1195) and Al Odah v. United...
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SCOTUSblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The D.C. Circuit Court refused on Thursday to block the scheduled beginning of the war crimes trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan at Guantanamo Bay on May 28, but allowed his lawyers to renew the plea after the Supreme Court rules this month or next on the legal rights of detainees. Lawyers for the Yemeni national had [...]
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... to begin a week earlier. A Supreme Court ruling is expected by June 30. Defense lawyers for Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose trial was scheduled to start June 2, had requested a postponement. Military prosecutors had said they were eager to go to trial. The military judge's ruling is the latest in a series of delays for the government as it tries to prosecute Hamdan, a Yemeni,...
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Misblog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Kangaroo Kommission Judge, Navy Captain Keith Allred, has halted the Kangaroo Kommission Kickoff (KKK) process for the kangaroo trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan pending a decision from the United States Supreme Court in the cases of Boumediene v. Bush (06-1195) and Al Odah v. US (06-1196). Web: AP-> US postpones first Guantanamo war crimes trial . The United States Supreme Court's ruling...
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MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
... hearings to begin a week earlier.A Supreme Court ruling is expected by June 30.Defense lawyers for Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose trial was scheduled to start June 2, had requested a postponement. Military prosecutors had said they were eager to go to trial.Series of delaysThe military judge’s ruling is the latest in a series of delays for the government as it tries to prosecute...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Published: Monday May 12, 2008 The Pentagon reviewed its options Monday following a military judge’s ruling that raised questions about the impartiality of the first war crimes trial against an Al-Qaeda suspect. Navy Captain Keith Allred, the military judge in the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, on Friday disqualified the Pentagon's legal adviser for the military commissions from further...
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JURIST (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... military commissions, but last week was disqualified from participating in the trial of detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan amidst concerns he was too closely associated with the prosecution. Earlier this year former Guantanamo prosecutor Air Force Col. Morris D. Davis said Hartmann had questioned the need for open trials at Guantanamo and was upset with the slow pace of the proceedings...
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Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Marty Lederman links to the important opinion disqualifying General Thomas Hartmann from any involvement in Salim Ahmed Hamdan's--Osama bin Laden's driver--military tribunal. As Marty notes, the opinion does much more than the traditional press coverage of the opinion lets on. The opinion basically affirms that the Gitmo show trials under Hartmann have been just that--trials driven...
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
A judge for the Guantanamo tribunal says Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann lacked independence and must be replaced before Salim Ahmed Hamdan is prosecuted. A Navy judge has barred a Pentagon legal advisor from participating in the war crimes trial of Osama bin Laden's former driver, saying the advisor lacks independence.
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Later On (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... power to decide how much would be spent on defense experts, travel and staff that might be need by Hamdan's four-attorney legal team, including a staff psychiatrist. Allred issued the 13-page ruling Friday, a little more than a week after lawyers for the driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, 36, of Yemen, called witnesses to testify that during nearly a year as legal adviser Hartmann...
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SCOTUSblog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... who has been barred by the judge from any further participation in the war crimes case against Salim Ahmed Hamdan — likely to be the first such trial at Guantanamo. (Note that Hamdan's attorneys have pending at the D.C. Circuit a motion to delay his Guantanamo trial until after the Supreme Court rules this Term on the legal rights of detainees. That matter has been fully...
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Prairie Weather (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... power to decide how much would be spent on defense experts, travel and staff that might be need by Hamdan's four-attorney legal team, including a staff psychiatrist. Allred issued the 13-page ruling Friday, a little more than a week after lawyers for the driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, 36, of Yemen, called witnesses to testify that during nearly a year as legal adviser Hartmann...
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STLtoday.com Top News Headlines (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... were reviewing the ruling and could not yet comment on it. The trial against the detainee, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, was expected to begin next month.
