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| US judge: American caught fighting for IS must be given lawyer |
| 2017-12-25 |
| [IsraelTimes] A federal judge rules that the US military must provide legal counsel to an American citizen who was picked up months ago on the Syrian battlefield and accused of fighting with Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... The unidentified American, who has not been charged, surrendered to US-backed fighters in Syria around September 12 and is currently being held in Iraq as an unlawful enemy combatant. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a court petition challenging his detention and asking to act on his behalf to provide him access to legal counsel. Late last month, the US government acknowledged that it has detained an American citizen accused of fighting with IS for months without fulfilling his request to see a lawyer. In her ruling, US District Judge Tanya Chutkan denies the Defense Department’s motion to dismiss the matter and ordered the military to let the ACLU "immediate and unmonitored access to the detainee" so that it can determine whether he wants the ACLU to represent him. The judge also orders the Defense Department not to transfer the detainee until the ACLU tells the court of the detainee’s wishes. "This is a landmark ruling that rejects the Trump administration’s unprecedented attempt to block an American citizen from challenging his executive imprisonment," says Jonathan Hafetz, senior staff attorney for the ACLU. "Ensuring citizens detained by the government have access to a lawyer and a court is essential to preserving the Constitution and the rule of law in America." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 USDistrict Judge Tanya Chutkan Her husband Peter Arno Krauthamer, a judge to the bench in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, was nominated by President Barack Obama on July 11, 2011.[4] On December 19, 2013, President Obama nominated Chutkan to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, to a new seat created pursuant to 104 Stat. 5089, on July 1, 2013. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-12-25 09:11 |
| #3 Hungry, cold, tired, no cigs, gave himself up to a syrian rebel group. Too many vague ROE? Throw him back. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-12-25 08:45 |
| #2 1. Was he captured on the battlefield? 2. Was he fighting in the ranks of the enemy? 3. Proceed with the treason trial. He can have an attorney during the proceedings. |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2017-12-25 08:05 |
| #1 Is judge Roy Bean available? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-12-25 06:26 |