Military Commissions Act of 2009
The Military Commissions Act of 2009, which amended the
Formally, the amended act is Title XVIII of the
, enacted October 28, 2009).On December 3, 2009,
Sudanese captive Ibrahim al Qosi
.
The
Guantanamo military commissions. According to Edwards, some Obama appointees had tried to get new rules that would have caused the Prosecution to abandon charging Guantanamo captives such as Omar Khadr with murder. Edwards wrote that the change would have triggered dropping charges against a third of the Guantanamo captives whom the Prosecution planned to charge with murder.[5]
See also
- Detainee Treatment Act
- Military Commissions Act of 2006
- Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010
References
- ^
Jaclyn Belczyk (October 9, 2009). "House passes amendments to Military Commissions Act". The Jurist. Archived from the originalon December 2, 2009.
- ^ BOUMEDIENE et al. v. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, et al., Cornell University Law School, retrieved December 23, 2009
- ^ BOUMEDIENE et al. v. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, et al., FindLaw For Legal Professionals, retrieved December 23, 2009
- ^ Carol Rosenberg (December 3, 2009). "Guantánamo judge won't expand Sudanese captive's war crimes case". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on December 4, 2009.
- ^ a b
Steven Edwards (May 24, 2010). "Obama officials pushed, but failed, for new rules in Khadr tribunal". Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on November 9, 2010. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
The officials sought to strip a new commissions manual of a law-of-war murder definition that is central to Khadr's prosecution in the mortal wounding of Special Forces Sgt. First Class Chris Speer during a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan, insiders say. Omission of the segment could have also obliged prosecutors to trim or abandon "up to one-third" of its cases, according to one inside estimate.
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