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US civilian, military terrorism trials differ

The U.S. federal courts and military tribunals that will prosecute suspected terrorists vary sharply in their independence, public stature and use of evidence. The Obama administration so far has offered no clear-cut rationale for how it chooses ...

From MARK SHERMAN, Taiwan News,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Congress,  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,  Al-Qaeda

Terror trials differ in civilian, military courts

WASHINGTON—The federal courts and military tribunals that will prosecute suspected terrorists vary sharply in their independence, public stature and use of evidence. But the Obama administration has so far offered no clear-cut rationale for how it ...

From MARK SHERMAN, Boston Globe,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,  Al-Qaeda,  US State Department

Obama, revisiting Nixon, says 9/11 suspect guilty

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama appeared to be taking a page from Richard Nixon's playbook Wednesday when he seemed to declare the suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed guilty and deserving of the death penalty. In Nixon's case, he ...

From MARK SHERMAN, Boston Globe,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Richard Nixon,  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,  Charles Manson,  Sharon Tate

Death penalty rare, executions rarer in military

Though the suspect in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood could face the death penalty, he will be prosecuted in a military justice system where no one has been executed in nearly a half-century. Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist alleged to ...

From MARK SHERMAN, eTaiwan News,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Timothy McVeigh,  John Allen Muhammad,  Osama bin Laden,  Duke University,  Barack Obama

High court looks at life in prison for juveniles

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court appears sharply divided over whether sentencing a juvenile to life in prison with no chance of parole is cruel and unusual punishment, particularly if the crime is less serious than homicide. ...

From MARK SHERMAN, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ruth Bader Ginsburg,  Samuel Alito

High court to look at life in prison for juveniles

This 2007 photo provided by Equal Justice Initiative shows inmate Joe Sullivan, 31, at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Lake City, Fla. Sullivan raped an elderly woman when he was 13-years-old, was judged incorrigible, and sentenced to life in ...

From MARK SHERMAN, Boston Globe,  9 Nov 2009

SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Justices split on Series

WASHINGTON He's a right-leaning New Jersey native with a lifelong love of the Phillies. She's a liberal New Yorker who grew up near Yankee Stadium. They're eying each other warily these days from opposite ends of the Supreme Court bench. Justices ...

From MARK SHERMAN, San Diego Union-Tribune,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Philadelphia Phillies,  Samuel Alito,  Sonia Sotomayor,  Brad Lidge,  A.J. Burnett

High court won't review civil rights-era case

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a judge's ruling that allowed prosecutors to charge a reputed Ku Klux Klansman with kidnapping more than 40 years after two black men were abducted and killed in rural Mississippi. The justices ...

From MARK SHERMAN, San Diego Union-Tribune,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ford Motor Company,  John Paul Stevens,  Antonin Scalia

DC sniper asks Supreme Court to block execution

WASHINGTON Attorneys for John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area that left 10 dead, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to stop his execution. The 48-year-old Muhammad is scheduled to die by ...

From MARK SHERMAN, San Diego Union-Tribune,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Supreme Court of the United States,  John Allen Muhammad,  Lee Boyd Malvo

Justices to decide if detainees can be freed in US

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to decide whether Guantanamo detainees who are considered no threat can be ordered released in the United States - over the objections of the Obama administration and Congress - if the prisoners have ...

From MARK SHERMAN, Boston Globe,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  George W. Bush,  The Pentagon,  Elena Kagan

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