1/08/2010

Will Judges Throw Out Important Evidence in Terror Trials because confessions were coerced?: They already are

Here is one example:
Judge tosses out most evidence on Gitmo detainee
Jan 8 03:00 PM US/Eastern
By PETE YOST
Associated Press Writer
A federal judge has tossed out most of the government's evidence against a tarrorism detainee on grounds his confessions were coerced, allegedly by U.S. forces, before he became a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay.
In a ruling this week, U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan also said the government failed to establish that 23 statements the detainee made to interrogators at Guantanamo Bay were untainted by the earlier coerced statements made while he was held under harsh conditions in Afghanistan.
However, the judge said statements he made during two military administrative hearings at the U.S. detention center in Cuba, where he was assisted by a personal representative, were reliable and sufficient to justify holding the detainee. . . .

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