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Additionally, the tribunal would be able to both convict and impose sentences by a two-thirds majority of a jury of military officers, rather than the unanimous decision traditionally expected of juries for hundreds of years. And no matter what the outcome of their deliberations, the court’s actions could not be appealed to any court of the United States or of any state—in effect suspending the writ of habeas corpus that guarantees defendants their day in court...
...resources to prosecute cases of terrorism quickly and effectively, not mask its inability to do so by a process that saves the expense at the cost of fundamental rights. If our government has sufficient reasons to condemn a suspect in a military tribunal, it has sufficient evidence to convict that suspect in a court...
...tribunal idea looks to me like a way of dealing with a fear that we lack the evidence to convict these people,” Heymann said...
...cheerleaderness are hardly a source of drama at all, while in "Valley Girl," the punk and the popular girl might as well have been Hatfield and McCoy. In "Sugar and Spice," a tight-knit band of cheerleaders consists of a perky prom queen type, a trash-talking convict's daughter, a goodie-two-shoes fundamentalist Christian, and a nerd who gets into Harvard. If they were characters in a movie made ten years ago, they wouldn't be able to remain two minutes in the same locker room without bloodshed...
...fearing that witnesses would soon vanish, Philadelphia D.A. Lynne Abraham decided to use a new state law allowing trials in absentia. With only Einhorn's memory filling the defendant's chair, a jury listened for two weeks and then took just two hours to convict the Unicorn of first-degree murder...