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The afternoon session gets started without Al-Nashiri in attendance. Learned Counsel Rick Kammen rises to press Lt. Hurley's case one last time that the defense should be able to question Dr. Crosby abou...
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The court begins Thursday's session with AE205K, a government request, opposed by the defense, that a witness be allowed to testify under a pseudonym.
CDR Brian Mizer explains that this is a general obj...
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To close out the unclassified portion of the afternoon session, the court hears argument on AE231-234, all defense motions to dismiss charges for multiplicity.
The defense first raises AE231, seeking di...
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The court begins the afternoon session with quick consideration of one more defense discovery motion, AE226, seeking exculpatory information from a case in the Southern District of New York pertaining to...
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The court returns from recess to consider two defense discovery motions, AE224, seeking information surrounding the facts and circumstances of the death of Abdul Aziz Bin Attash, and AE225, requesting fi...
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Next up is AE223A, a government response to a defense request that Judge Pohl authorize ex parte letters rogatory---essentially letters from the court to a foreign government seeking assistance in obtain...
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Picking up on the tail end of Tuesday's arguments on capital punishment, the prosecutor CDR Andrea Lockhart says that the government is ready to argue AE212, a defense motion seeking to strike the prosec...
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In AE222, the defense seeks to compel discovery into a possible reprisal defense to the terrorism charges against Al-Nashiri.
By reprisal, Maj. Tom Hurley has in mind, in essence, a legal doctrine that ...
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The afternoon pushes on, to AE209---the first in a series of motions seeking to take death off the table as a punishment option.
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In AE207, the government has asked for a pre-trial hearing regarding on various evidence. CDR Andrea Lockhart has in mind 167 pieces of physical evidence seized from or near the U.S.S. Cole, immediately ...
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The Guantanamo lunch hour closes; the military commission resumes, court and counsel first turning their collective attention to some procedural odds and ends. One item raised by Al-Nashiri’s Learned Co...
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When recess ends, Kammen says he spoke with Al-Nashiri during the break. For some reason---apparently there’s an unwritten rule about where the accused may stand---guards had then became agitated, becau...