Legal challenges could overturn half of Gitmo’s successful convictions
OPS_admin | Jul 25, 2010 | Comments 0
Decisions on two legal challenges to the Guantanamo military commissions system, both expected this summer, could undo half the convictions won so far before the tribunals and disrupt a number of pending cases.
The appeals of two 2008 convictions attack several core aspects of the young trial system. One potentially explosive argument is that the most commonly charged offenses — conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism — are not war crimes that can be tried in a military court.
The government insists there is longstanding precedent for prosecuting these acts through military justice. “Terrorism, though perhaps often by other names, is undoubtedly a war crime,” Edward White, a Navy lawyer who represents the government in one of the appeals, wrote in a brief. Violators, he added “were historically liable to be shot immediately upon capture.”
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