A judge on the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday granted habeas to Guantanamo detainee Mohammed El Gharani and directed his release. El Gharani, a Chadian citizen born in Saudi Arabia, was arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of ties to al Qaeda. Judge Richard Leon ruled that the government had failed [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases. In Puckett v. United States , the Court heard arguments on whether a defendant's claim, not raised at trial, that the prosecution breached a plea agreement is reviewable on appeal according to the plain-error standard under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure . The [...]
A judge in the Penal Chamber of the National Court of Spain in Madrid on Tuesday ordered a trial for the men allegedly responsible for the killings of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter. Judge Eloy Velasco admitted the plea entered in November by the Spanish Association for Human Rights , finding that [...]
The convening authority of military commissions Susan Crawford has said that torture tactics were used in the interrogation of Mohammed al-Qahtani , a suspect held at Guantanamo Bay under allegations of connections to the 9/11 attacks, according to a Wednesday interview in the Washington Post. Crawford made the statement after nearly two years of reviewing [...]
Judge John Bates of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday ordered that copies of the documents related to the investigation into the late 2006 firings of nine US attorneys be provided by the Bush administration to the incoming Obama administration. The court order indicated that the US House of Representatives [...]
Common Cause/Georgia, et al., v. NAACP, Eugene Taylor, and Bertha Barrett Young, US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, January 14, 2009 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Herring v. United States, Supreme Court of the United States, January 14, 2009 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Mohammed El Gharani v. George W. Bush, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, January 14, 2009 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The US Supreme Court decided two cases Wednesday. The Court ruled 5-4 in Herring v. United States that evidence seized during a search incident to an arrest does not have to be suppressed when the sole premise for the arrest was information later found to be negligently provided by another law enforcement agency. Chief Justice [...]
The Bush administration engaged in numerous abuses , and the incoming Obama administration should launch a criminal investigation to find out whether any laws were violated, according to a report released Tuesday by US House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) . In the nearly 500-page report, Conyers points to allegations of torture and [...]
