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• The Case of Bobby Woods

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 512
  The Texas Observer has streaming video of Bobby Woods to complement Renee Feltz report, " Possibly Retarded Prisoner Faces Execution ." When Texas reopens its execution chamber after a Thanksgiving break, the first man set to die may be mentally retarded. A 2002 Supreme Court ruling bans the execution of mentally ...
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• Judge Orders Release Of Algerian From Guantánamo (But He’s Not Going Anywhere) by Andy Worthington

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 540
  by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk24 November 2009On Friday, District Court Judge Gladys Kessler ordered the release from Guantánamo of Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, a 48-year old Algerian, after granting his habeas corpus petition. Her ruling has not yet been unclassified, so the ...
  1 day ago

• Judge Orders Release Of Algerian From Guantánamo (But He’s Not Going Anywhere)

  
  Andy Worthington — Authority: 513
  On Friday, District Court Judge Gladys Kessler ordered the release from Guantánamo of Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, a 48-year old Algerian, after granting his habeas corpus petition. Her ruling has not yet been unclassified, so the reasons for her decision are not yet clear, but it is significant that the ruling now ...
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• More Harm Than Good: Why Capital Punishment Doesn’t Work

  
  The Criminal Lawyer — Authority: 107
  Without much media fanfare, the Supreme Court has already decided two capital-punishment cases this month. The first, Bobby v. Van Hook , came down on the 9th, and dealt with a case from early 1985. Nearly 25 years ago, Van Hook went looking for someone to rob, trolled a Cincinnati gay bar, and seduced a guy he ...
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• Justice Department Pointlessly Gags Guantánamo Lawyer

  
  Andy Worthington — Authority: 513
  One of the saddest stories in Guantánamo is that of Abdul Hamid al-Ghizzawi, a Libyan married to an Afghan woman and with a newly-born baby daughter, who was running a small bakery in Jalalabad, Afghanistan at the time of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001. Fearing that he would be seized in the ...
  3 days ago

• Obama’s Failure To Close Guantánamo By January Deadline Is Disastrous by Andy Worthington

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 540
  by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk21 November 2009President Obama’s admission in China that he will miss his self-imposed deadline for the closure of Guantánamo is disastrous for the majority of the 215 men still held, and for those who hoped, ten months ago, that he would ...
  4 days ago

• Another Gitmo Detainee Wins in Federal Court; Score Is Detainees 31, United States 8

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 763
  Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, an Algerian national who was captured in Pakistan and turned over to the U.S. military after fleeing from Afghanistan, was ordered released by a U.S. federal district court judge yesterday, according to the human rights group CagePrisoners. Judge Gladys Kessler’s written opinion is still ...
  5 days ago

• Rand Paul: Neocon Totalitarian

  
  Skeptical Eye — Authority: 436
  Ron Pauls son goes neocon : BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY – Leading United States Senate candidate Rand Paul today criticized the Obama administration’s decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and try terrorism suspects in United States Civil Courts. “Foreign terrorists do not deserve the protections ...
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• What the Law Commands

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 512
  Thats the title of a post by Linda Greenhouse at the New York Times Opinionator blog.  LINK   As with anything the retired Times Supreme Court correspondent writes, its a must-read.  Im going to focus on one section of her post. The proof of how alike the two justices really are, of course, willlie not in their ...
  6 days ago

• The Crisis of the 9/11 terrorist trial.

  
  Michael Wolfe — Authority: 113
  The real tragedy of this trial is a that it is a lose-lose. 1. By going to civil court, the rights of the constitution* are bestowed upon non-citizens who attacked us, and freely confessed to doing so. This unconstitutional precedent could be used as a legal basis to grant constitutional rights to illegal immigrants. ...
  1 week ago

• Podcast: Q & A With Bob Barr: Guantanamo Bay Detainees Heading To The United States?

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 574
  In a special podcast, Jason and Brett interview Bob Barr to further explore his thoughts regarding the plan to possibly bring prisoners detained as part of the War on Terror to the United States for trial. On Monday, former Congressman Barr, along with Grover Norquist and David Keene released a joint ...
  1 week ago

• Magwood v. Culliver From Alabama

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 512
  " 30 Years After Murder, Is His Appeal Too Late? " is the title of Adam Liptaks report in todays New York Times. The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether it is too late foran Alabama man to argue that the murder that sent him to death row wasnot a capital crime when he committed it. The inmate, Billy Joe ...
  1 week ago

• High court suspects honour killing, raps Ghaziabad police

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  News Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) Expressing dissatisfaction with the Ghaziabad police’s investigation in the mysterious death of a girl who had married against her family’s wishes, the Delhi High Court Tuesday asked senior officials of the Uttar Pradesh government to explain why the case should not be handed over to the ...
  1 week ago

• “It Is a Bad Idea . . . to Leave the Judge with a Smoldering Suspicion . . .”

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 773
  On Friday, in Johnson v. Sherry , a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit vacated the district court’s denial of William Johnson’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus and remanded the case for additional proceedings to determine whether Johnson received inadequate assistance of ...
  1 week ago

• Andy Worthington on U.S. Tour: "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo" (video)

  
  Invictus — Authority: 419
  As Andy Worthington is wrapping up his tour promoting the documentary, "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo" (co-directed by Andy and filmmaker Polly Nash), a notice at his blog announces today that the Future of Freedom Foundation has made the film available as a 38-minute video entitled “An Evening with ...
  1 week ago

• 9/11 Trials, NY City, Terrorists, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Daniel Pearl decapitation, New York terrorists trial, Obama and Eric Holder, Left wing socialist agenda, Obama supporters, Forum on CIA waterboarding and America, Terrorist training camps

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 583
  To: Barack Obama and his cadre of left wing, socialist, anti Americans and Terrorists bent on killing America and Americans. Let Me Make This Perfectly Clear 1. Any attempts to turn the trial in NY City of 9/11 terrorists into a 3 ring circus and a forum on American interogation techniques or ...
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• Protected: Sex Slave Allegations Cause New Trial

  
  North Country Gazette — Authority: 540
  There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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• Guantanamo detainee appealing suspension of habeas corpus proceedings

  
  freedetainees.org — Authority: 432
  Carrie Schimizzi [JURIST] A Tajikistan native held at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] has challenged [appellate brief, PDF] a federal judge’s decision to suspend his habeas corpus proceedings after he was cleared for transfer to Tajikistan. Umar Hamzayevich Abdulayev alleges that Judge Reggie Walton of the ...
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• Habeas Lounge Closing ~ Downtown

  
  LA TACO — Authority: 132
  Downtown L.A. Art Walk ~ 735 S. Figueroa ~ Los AngelesWhat is the future of bicycling and public transportation in DTLA. What are some of the current issues?Tonight is the closing event and last Habeas Lounge discussion – all on bicycles and public transportation. Talk with a range of advocates, movers and shakers ...
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• Minnesota Lawyers Protect Rights of Those on Death Row

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 512
  Thats the title of Sam Barrs Behind the Bar column at MinnPost. LINK   Heres an extended excerpt from the beginning of the article. About 3,300 people are on death row right now. Few are represented bycompetent lawyers at public expense, despite the need to be sure —certain, if possible — that only the guilty ...
  2 weeks ago

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