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But, you know, they spent a fair amount of time diving through a count charge sheet and figuring out which ones they were willing to convict on. Now, right now, they're engaged in working on what the sentence should be. Tell us how that process is working. Yes, you know, the jury convicts by majority, four out of six to sentence him to up to 10 years and, if they're to give him life in jail or 10 years on, they need five out of six of them.

So they're going to hear from a psychiatrist. And she's describing his aspirations, that if he ever gets out of here, what he'd like to do, as a way — called by the defense to try to mitigate whatever sentence they're going to hand down. Now, you've learned a little bit about — assuming he is going to be held — what the conditions are, where he would be detained going forward.

He's one of men here held as war on terror captives, enemy combatants, but he's the only convict. So as the only convict, he can't be held with the other people. So they have to create a separate system of detaining him here at Guantanamo as a war criminal, while the others are basically held as either pretrial — they want to charge 79 more of these guys and put them on trial — and they're held either as what they call enemy combatants, taken off the battlefield until the war on terror ends, or before their trial.

Well, Carol Rosenberg who's been reporting for us on this trial from Guantanamo Bay, thank you very much. Support Provided By: Learn more. Thursday, Jan The Latest. World Agents for Change. He was eventually convicted on five counts of providing material support for terrorism. On appeal, Hamdan argued that Congress lacked the power to make providing support for terrorism a war crime.

The appeals court refused to rule on that question, but it concluded that the military commissions act did not authorize prosecutions for conduct that occurred before the law was passed and that was not prohibited at the time it occurred.

A Justice Department spokesman said the U. Brian Mizer, who was a U. Mizer, who now works as a public defender in Virginia, did not represent Hamdan in the appeal.

The Guantanamo detention facility opened in This entry was posted on August 7, at am and is filed under american culture , American politics , campaign , foreign affairs , foreign policy , the bizarre , the spin , Uncategorized , world politics. You can subscribe via RSS 2. And also what the point of the trial was in the first place as the US military announced they would keep him at Guantanamo anyway regardless of verdict or sentence….

Thanks, Andrew. That is, IF obama gets elected. I am cautiously optimistic, but i really think that, in the 11th hour, the bulk of middle america will make a big push toward mccain pushing him to win. When that happens I think they are going to see how little experience he has and how socialistic his positions are. Still Bush is an unpopular president waging an unpopular war, and yet he WON in Also the war is going MUCH better today than it was in Supreme Court in the precedent-setting case of Hamdan v.

In its decision, the court ruled that the military commission being used to try Hamdan was illegal and therefore lacked the protections provided under the Geneva Conventions and U.

Uniform Code of Military Justice.