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Salim Hamdan had spent two years as a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay when he first met Lieut. Commander Charles Swift, his Pentagon-appointed Navy defense lawyer. At the meeting, Swift suggested the possibility of suing President Bush on Hamdan's behalf...
...Critics question whether an expedited education will be a more efficient use of time and money for cash-strapped students or if it will churn out unprepared, inferior litigators with fewer job opportunities. "You want that other year because you will be a better lawyer for the next 50 years with that investment," says Geoffrey Stone, law professor at the University of Chicago. Indeed, the one clear winner in the accelerated approach may turn out to be the school. With its new two-year program, notes Stone, "Northwestern gets more tuition with less teaching...
...This is a watershed moment because for many of these people, these kinds of statements - by themselves or from other detainees - are all the evidence there is," says Joshua Dratel, a New York City lawyer who represented terror suspect David Hicks during the Australian's stay at Guantánamo. "For the high-value detainees, there's an acknowledgement that a lot more [was done] to them in the black sites - waterboarding and other serious forms of abuse - and you really have to wonder if anything said under those conditions can be [considered] reliable and fair [evidence...
...government's case. "The decision may have a significant impact on Mr. Hamdan's case, but it doesn't change the fact that the system in place allows for the introduction of coerced evidence," says Deborah Colson, who has dealt with the Guantánamo proceedings as a lawyer with Human Rights First. "It doesn't change the fact that the system is fundamentally flawed...
...Swift, Hamdan's military defense lawyer, successfully urged his client to reject the government's tentative offer - 20 years imprisonment in exchange for full cooperation, including testifying at the military commissions of other detainees. Together with a young constitutional law professor named Neal Katyal, Swift built a defense that delayed Hamdan's military tribunal for years as it gradually made its way through the courts. His lawyers' perseverance meant little to Hamdan. Officials at Guantánamo have characterized Hamdan as a problematic prisoner, a rabble-rouser who turns every order into a negotiation and incites his fellow inmates...