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Let’s push on to AE177, another Ex Post Facto motion. This time around, Mizer and company ask Judge Pohl to take the death penalty off the table, so far as concerns the offense of “intentional murder or...
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It’s on again, y’all. All parties are present, including Al-Nashiri. Yesterday, Judge Pohl explains, a Rule 505(h) hearing was held, regarding the parties' ability to make use of classified evidence in...
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U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in New York has granted attorneys for terrorism defendant Sulaiman Abu Gayth access, under controlled circumstances, to one Khalid Sheikh Mohammed---to whom they will get...
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After a set of emergency talks involving multiple countries, the government of Ukraine has announced a tentative resolution to the bloody civil conflict centered in Kiev. The deal does not include Presid...
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A dense fog has descended over the Nation's "Preeminent Center for Information, Intelligence, and Cyber." Lawfare returns to Ft. Meade today, to view pre-trial hearings in the military commission case o...
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Today D.C. Circuit Judges David Tatel, Janice Rogers Brown, and A. Raymond Randolph will hear oral arguments in Al Laithi v. Rumsfeld.
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The documents were released earlier today, and all relate to the Guantanamo detainee's entry, this morning, of a guilty plea.
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Every major media outlet is reporting a bloodbath in Kiev. Fighting broke out wit
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Life is the maximum possible penalty for the offenses charged, but Al-Darbi has entered into a pre-trial agreement---which the court now reviews with prosecution, defense, and accused. Again, we’ll exci...
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With Al-Darbi’s guilty plea entered, we turn to the nuts and bolts for pleas under the Military Commissions Act and implementing rules---of which there are many. Given that numerosity, we’ll summarize t...
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The image is different on the Fort Meade screen: we see the rarely-used bench, inside Courtroom One at Guantanamo. (The 9/11 and Al-Nashiri cases, as y’all now, are conducted in Courtroom Two.) The mil...
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Lawfare returns to Fort Meade's storied CCTV outpost, this time for arraignment in the Guantanamo military commission case of United States v. Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al Darbi. Along with the usual ar...
