Of course, this is why you don't prosecute foreign terrorists in US courts.
Bingo.
I’ll be surprised if they are convicted. AFAIK practically all of the evidence against them was collected counter to US judicial standards and will be thrown out.
pnh is exactly right
“I really cannot fault the judge for this. It is illegal to coerce a confession from a criminal suspect in the US criminal justice system.”
The system exists for civilians in our country.
These terrorists are not civilians.
We are pretty well screwed once it was decided to try them as civilians, whether it is KSM or the knickerbomber.
If you read the whole link you see the Judge did decide that other confessions given by these muslim are valid and can be used to hold him
the Judge was appointed by Reagan. I don ‘t think he had any choice in how he ruled.
The choice should be to NOT try them as civlians
Exactly. The judge was doing his job. His decision was driven by American criminal law. Confessions which have been improperly gained -- by American criminal law standards -- should be thrown out.
By the same token, an international terrorist captured on the field of combat overseas has no business being tried in an American criminal court.
Eventually, in the NY "show trials", a Federal judge is going to be confronted with a fundamental conflict between applying the law (and dismissing charges) or prostituting the law and supporting the political regime (by allowing a conviction).
“I really cannot fault the judge for this. It is illegal to coerce a confession from a criminal suspect in the US criminal justice system. If a cop had done the same thing to any criminal suspect this too would have been rejected by the courts.”
True.