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...detainee is eligible for release will the Pentagon actually sign off. A Pentagon spokesman would not comment on the more than 30 detainees whose fate is in limbo. But to critics of the Pentagon's treatment of detainees at Guant??namo, the continuing delays are inexcusable. Says Neal Sonnett, the American Bar Association's observer at Gitmo: "Some of these people have been detained for three years, and we should do everything possible to be sure that we don't detain innocent people one minute longer than we have to." By Timothy J. Burger
...case Smith is being charged years after the fact with attacks that were never investigated or proved. In response, his lawyers asked that Lasch be censured for her "cynical attempt to sandbag Mr. Smith and to undermine his fair trial rights." Even if the evidence is disallowed, notes Neal Sonnett, a criminal defense lawyer in Miami, "I doubt seriously that there will be very many prospective jurors who will not have heard or read about these latest revelations. The notion that Willy Smith is something akin to a serial rapist is bound to prejudice them...
...Noriega flap illustrates, the law also has the potential of blocking the funds that suspects need to hire the attorneys of their choice. The measure, complains Neal Sonnett, president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, "gives prosecutors the power to disqualify a Clarence Darrow while allowing a more pliable lawyer to remain in the case...
...helpful to the incumbent's victory was winning 27% of the Hispanic vote, almost all of which is Cuban. The independence shown by those voters was encouraging. It suggested that a truce was at least possible in Miami's racially charged politics. Said Miami Attorney Neal Sonnett: "The time is particularly right for some healing...
...result of the falling out, however, the newspaper will no longer give Lord, Day & Lord litigation assignments. Instead, these will be handled by another New York firm, Cahill, Gordon, Sonnett, Reindel & Ohl, which, with the help of Constitutional Law Professor Alexander Bickel of Yale, successfully represented the Times in the Pentagon papers case...