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Improving Detainee Policy: Testimony before Senate Judiciary Committee on June 4

By International Association of Penal Law

I have been invited to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing on June 4, 2008, entitled “Improving Detainee Policy:  Handling Terrorism Detainees within the American Justice System.”  I will testify regarding my proposal advocating the establishment of a domestic terror court in the US. To watch the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Wednesday, June 4, open wwww.CapitolHearings.org Click on Room number Dirksen 226 from  the scrolling list to the right of the screen to begin streaming audio. The executive summary of my testimony appears below. Click here to read the full text of the prepared testimony. Improving Detainee Policy:  Handling Terrorism Detainees within the American Justice System (Executive Summary) Considering how to handle terror detainees within the American justice system, there are three forum options: (1) treaty-based international terror courts, (2) traditional Article III courts, and (3) a hybrid option which I call ?domestic terror courts...continue to full post

Full post as published by AIDP Blog on June 03, 2008 (boomark / email).