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December 25, 2009 - 3:31 pm - by Richard Fernandez
myth buster
2009-12-26 13:32:16

124. The ACLU can’t help Hassan. That’s because Hassan faces a General Courts Martial, not a civilian trial. A GCM does not have to be public, does not permit a civilian lawyer, and both the judge and jury are exclusively military personnel. The only chance he has for mercy is that Obama would have to sign off on his death warrant, so it is within Obama’s power to suspend a death sentence or commute it to life without parole.