The military is considering creating a quarantine zone at Guantanamo's crude Camp Justice compound to try to restart hearings in the Sept. 11 case. On the war crimes prosecutors' struggle to make progress at remote Gitmo during the coronavirus pandemic. nytimes.com/2020/07/27/us/…
The proposal would airlift about 100 hearing participants to the remote base and confine them to a series of tents and trailers that are on track for renovations -- at the height of hurricane season during the pandemic.
Latest: Sept. 11 trial prosecutors are asking the caretaker judge to reinstate the 75-year-old, excused capital defense lawyer because his successor has projected he will need 30 months to prepare for the 9/11 death-penalty trial -- after the pandemic restrictions are over.
In February, the (since-retired) trial judge W. Shane Cohen relieved Jim Harrington of future travel to Guantanamo, but kept him in a transition mode, after Mr. Harrington invoked a heart condition and declared, "My trial days are over." Context...
nytimes.com/2020/02/18/us/…
Mr. Harrington's successor is 70 years old and one of the nation's leading, long-serving death penalty defenders. U.S. intelligence agencies have yet to issue him his final security clearance during the pandemic.
nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/…
The 28-page filing to recall Mr. Harrington awaits a security review before its release. Those who read it say, if he is reinstated and the military sets up the Covid-19 zone, the 75-year-old lawyer with a heart condition would be bivouacked in a tent or trailer for 14 days.
Latest: Prosecutors in Gitmo's other death-penalty case -- against a Saudi man accused in Al-Qaeda's 2000 bombing of the USS Cole warship -- have filed an eight-page proposal to start that troubled trial on June 6, 2022.
The last hearing was in January. #AE403R
Hearings have been on hold due to the pandemic, discovery is in dispute and there’s an unresolved claim of government intrusion of attorney-prisoner meetings. But prosecutors propose to make up lost time by limiting argument to 20 minutes per pleading. Once they return to court.
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