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"Highly Coerced" Statements Inadmissible at Guantanamo Commission: Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, received a significant victory in his trial when the judge ruled that prosecutors cannot use some of the defendant's statements, citing coercive conditions in Afghanistan. According to Jerry Markon's WA Post article, experts anticipate that several military trials of Guantanamo detainees will be affected by the decision. ACLU Aids Felons Challenging Voter Restrictions: The ACLU is challenging an Alabama law that allows felons to vote if their convictions were not for "crimes of moral turpitude". However, the process for having voting rights restored is considered difficult and ambiguous by people petitioning to have their rights restored...continue to full post

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