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Bormann of Chicago, resigned in March 2022. bin Attash’s earlier capital defender, Cheryl T. Matthew Engle, a Virginia lawyer who has specialized in capital punishment cases, has been chosen to serve as learned counsel but has yet to receive all of the security clearances necessary to work on the case. bin Attash is represented by a former lawyer with the Southern Center for Human Rights, William R. Kaczynski, as part of a capital defense team in a case that ended with Mr. Sowards previously represented the “Unabomber,” Theodore J. Nevin, Denise “Denny” LeBoeuf, Melanie T. Nicholas McCue of the Air Force, David Z. Sowards of New York serves as the lead, learned counsel with Lt. Military Commission Defense Organizationįor Mr. That total does not include people who died of diseases blamed on their work at the ruins of the World Trade Center. The VictimsĪ total of 2,976 people are named as victims in the charge sheet. Prosecutors call the 2007 questioning “clean-team” interrogations. interrogations excluded as tainted by torture, arguing that their clients had been conditioned by that point to provide answers that would please their interrogators. custody, when they were subjected to so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.”ĭefense lawyers want all evidence from the F.B.I. accounts of what the five men said in interrogations at Guantánamo in 2007, months after their arrival from years in C.I.A.

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Other issues to be decided before trial include what evidence is admissible at trial, notably F.B.I. Bush and subsequently overhauled by President Barack Obama and Congress. The prosecution and defense have been litigating what evidence the United States government must provide defense lawyers and what laws apply at the court, which was created by President George W. The case currently has no projected jury selection date. Since then, the timetable has been upended by changes in personnel as well as pandemic-related restrictions on travel to the base. 11, 2021, to start selection of the military jury that will hear the case, and estimated that the trial could last a year. The Trialīefore the coronavirus pandemic, a judge had set Jan. prison network and transferred to Guantánamo in September 2006 for trial. They were captured in 20, held incommunicado in a secret C.I.A. The defendants are accused of directing or training the hijackers or helping provide them money or assistance with travel. The charges, which carry the death penalty, include conspiracy, murder in violation of the law of war and terrorism. Five men are facing charges in the United States military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay of aiding the 19 men who hijacked passenger planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center, Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field on Sept.

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