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Legal wranglings over sentence in Hamdan case

By Douglas A. Berman

Friday's Wall Street Journal had this interesting article headlined "New Sentence Is Sought for Bin Laden's Driver."  Here is how it starts:The Bush administration wants the military jury that sentenced Osama bin Laden's former driver to reconvene for new deliberations that could add five years to his scheduled release date of Dec. 31. In August, a six-officer panel convicted Salim Hamdan of providing material support to terrorism.  It acquitted him of a more serious conspiracy charge and sentenced him to four months and 22 days beyond the time he had already served -- far less than the 30 years prosecutors sought.... Prosecutor John Murphy, a Justice Department attorney, initially said the government accepted the decision and called it "a victory for the system...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 18, 2008 (boomark / email).