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...there are plenty of other defendants who could be tried under Guantánamo's unique legal process. And carrying the banner for that process is Brigadier General Thomas W. Hartmann, 53, a lawyer and Air Force reservist who as the top legal adviser and chief administrator of the trials has managed to put 17 complex war-crimes cases on the docket in less than 18 months. Now Obama's promise to shutter the facility seems to have spurred Hartmann to even greater activity. Motions and hearings are currently under way in at least half a dozen cases, and this...
...similar account of Hartmann's aggressiveness comes from Navy Captain Patrick McCarthy, a senior lawyer who worked closely with the general and gave a sworn, 45-page statement earlier this year that was obtained by TIME. The deposition describes Hartmann demanding prosecution access to all sorts of sensitive records, notably those of the International Committee of the Red Cross, which has conducted private visits to hundreds of Gitmo prisoners. (Click here to read the deposition.) An ICRC spokesman told TIME the organization would strongly oppose use of its Guantanamo reports in court as a breach of confidentiality and a threat...
...just Mumbai. Among the 185 dead were visitors and expats from Israel, Singapore, the U.S. and Britain, and those who had come seeking work in India's most exciting place from all over the country: a software engineer from Bihar, a hotel manager from Manipur, a lawyer from Andhra Pradesh...
...Steven Wise, a Boston-based animal lawyer who taught the course in its first year, embraced this approach. Historically, we have held a mindset that “animals are property, and property has no rights,” Wise stated bluntly, arguing that animals were designated as property in an age of scientific illiteracy. Now that modern science is revealing animals’ cognitive and emotional abilities, Wise thinks it’s time for a new legal status for animals...
...allegedly revealed his Pakistani identity to police interrogators after being captured. Kasab, who gunned down dozens at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus on Nov. 26, is being kept in an unknown location in the state of Maharashtra, whose capital is Mumbai. He has not yet been granted access to a lawyer but will be charged in due course, say state-government sources. According to the police, Kasab left his impoverished parents in Faridkot, Pakistan, and joined the LeT. The group allegedly trained him in weapons and drafted him into its marine detachment, supposedly organized to infiltrate India by sea. According...