Sponsored Content
« Some News Organization Reports Disovery of "Super-Earths" | Main | Foreign Poohlicy »
June 17, 2008

And So It Begins: Terrorist Who Killed US Soldier in Grenade Attack Petitions for Release -- Because He Wasn't Read His Rights

Against that backdrop [the Boudemaine decision], navy Lt.-Cmdr. Bill Kuebler, Khadr's military-appointed defence lawyer, will use Wednesday's hearing to argue that the entire case against the Toronto-born accused terrorist should be thrown out on grounds U.S. authorities have never told him of his rights.

Which "rights" would those be?

The Supreme Court punted that issue to a district court judge, who will take six months to craft an opinion, which will then have to be reviewed by an appellate court, and then their decision will have to be reviewed en banc (by all members of the court, not just the three judges assigned to the case; big juicy cases are usually reheard en banc), and then, sometime thereafter, the Supreme Court will grant certiorari, find quibbles here and there with the lower courts' various rulings (as they always do), and then remand the case again to lower courts asking them to take another stab at the question which will hopefully, one day, pass muster and be recognized as the prevailing "constitutional" law by the Supreme court.

We won't know definitively if enemy captures have to be Mirandized for at least a year. More difficult questions will take much longer. (I hope the Miranda question will be an easy one for the court, but who can know, given Justice Fuckface Kennedy's continuing "evolution.")

Incidentally, this is a pretty stupid filing, because failure to read a suspect Miranda doesn't result, automatically, in his being released -- it only results in the suppression of any statements he made in absence of being advised of his rights. Unless almost the whole case against him is based on a confession, he can still be imprisoned.

But perhaps this lawyer thought that Super Sexy Celeberity Terrorists had special rights according to the Supreme Court, rights not afforded to us pissant US citizens (who are not super sexy because we don't murder people for Allah).

And who knows, his lawyer might turn out to be right.

Thanks to CJ.



digg this
posted by Ace at 06:28 PM

| Access Comments




Recent Comments
BourbonChicken: "Are you my dad? He thinks black pepper is too spic ..."

Lizzy[/i]: ">>Plus, once you get used to eating spices you alw ..."

Archer: "Does this EVA suit make me look fat? ..."

Truck Monkey Report: ""first moon rock picked up by a woman" First cr ..."

JT: "I guess Mannix is doing the Art Thread..... ..."

fd: "80 year old Hollywood pervert and LINCOLN PROJECT ..."

Bulgaroctonus : "I hope the little green men on the moon remember t ..."

Tom Servo: "Spice or not spice is simple - you have to have it ..."

Jim: "All three of the strandeds in the Willamette Natio ..."

BourbonChicken: "First woman on the moon crashes her buggy into Nei ..."

Ziba: "284 Translation: To see to speak when in the ..."

Lincolntf: "The vending machine coffee brings me back in time. ..."

Recent Entries
Search


Polls! Polls! Polls!
Frequently Asked Questions
The (Almost) Complete Paul Anka Integrity Kick
Top Top Tens
Greatest Hitjobs

The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
Powered by
Movable Type 2.64