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...filed the motion for a stay, as well as a petition for habeas corpus, with U.S. District Judge William Hoeveler in Miami and the judge, who presided over Noriega's original trial, granted a stay by the late afternoon but ordered both the government and Noriega's legal team to present their arguments and evidence to him on Thursday morning. Hoeveler will review the arguments in his chambers. The habeas petition by Noriega's lawyers raised concerns that France may fail to accord Noriega prisoner of war status in accordance with the Geneva Convention. The motion also calls...
...Skelton, the Democratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, set the rhetorical tone for committee hearings Thursday on whether to grant detainees habeas corpus, the right to argue in court that they are illegally held. "We must match our bedrock commitment to the rule of law and human rights," the septuagenarian declared, "to the enemy's propaganda of hatred...
...Back in November 2001, Bush created military tribunals to determine the fate of Guantanamo detainees. The tribunals lacked even the basics of due process - rules to ensure the reliability of evidence, for example, or the ability to appeal a decision - let alone the right to habeas corpus. Congress reacted to the tribunals by doing absolutely nothing. It didn't approve or disapprove them, but left Bush free to romp over the legal rights of anyone suspected of terrorism. As Michael Greenberger, a law professor at the University of Maryland and the head of its Center for Health and Homeland Security...
...Jostled awake by the rulings, the Republican-controlled Congress finally weighed in with a 2005 law prohibiting the inhumane treatment of prisoners but also stripping Guantanamo detainees of the right to habeas corpus. By then, though, it was already late. In 2006, the Supreme Court, skeptical of how suspected terrorists were being treated, ruled that the habeas-stripping provision of the new law didn't apply to pending cases. Congress quickly responded with yet another law - the Military Commissions Act - removing court jurisdiction over all detainee cases, so the only way a detainee can now challenge his imprisonment is before...
...Johnston is the author of the acclaimed short fiction collection “Corpus Christi.” He has another book to be published shortly by Random House that he says deals partly with a violin prodigy who has lost his gift and partly with a single mother who is helping to raise a stranded baby whale...