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Hamdan, Osama Bin Laden?s Driver, Sentenced to 5 and a Half Years

By Douglas A. Berman

Salim Hamdan, the Yemeni national who was Osama Bin Laden?s driver, and the first person to be tried by a military commission in 60 years, was sentenced today to 66 months in a detention facility at Guantanamo Bay for providing material support to a terror organization.  Prosecutors were seeking a sentence of at least 30 years for Hamdan, who had faced life in prison. The jury returned its verdict, after just 70 minutes of deliberations.  The jury sent a strong message to the U.S. government. Although Hamdan had been found guilty of providing material support to a terror organization for his role in the September 11th attacks on the United States, the military jury cleared him of the conspiracy charges.  Further, the military jury was aware before determining the sentence of the Court's determination to give him credit for the 61 months and eight days served...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 07, 2008 (boomark / email).