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"Youngest Guantanamo detainee pleads guilty"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this CNN report, which raises a lot of interesting issues about plea and sentencing procedures and outcomes in a very high-profile setting.  Here is are excerpts: Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr pleaded guilty to charges against him Monday, the Pentagon said, in the first military commission trial there since Barack Obama became president.   Khadr, 24, was accused of throwing a grenade during a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan that resulted in the death of Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer, a Special Forces medic. Khadr, the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay, was 15 at the time.  He faced a maximum sentence of life in prison.  He pleaded guilty to murder in violation of the laws of war, attempted murder in violation of the laws of war, conspiracy, two counts of providing material support for terrorism and spying in the United States, a Canadian diplomat said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 25, 2010 (boomark / email).