During a month of prosecution testimony, the court heard wrenching descriptions by survivors of the army's scorched-earth policy through the hamlets of the Mayan highlands.
"There was a kind of sub rosa [secret] thought process during at least the first few months of the prosecution of the war on terror," a former Pentagon official told the Guardian.
An initial investigation in August 2010 was dropped after only a day, but the following month Sweden's director of prosecution reopened the case.
Court-appointed lawyers for Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, called today for his trial to be delayed by at least two months because of the huge volume of prosecution evidence that they need to review before jury selection.
A1 Delay Is Sought in 9/11 Trial Court-appointed lawyers for Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, called for his trial to be delayed by at least two months because of the huge volume of prosecution evidence that they need to review before jury selection begins.
Six months later Brittan died with the threat of prosecution still hanging over him.
After 18 months of campaigning to stop my prosecution, it was suddenly claimed there was not enough evidence to proceed.
Bonds did not react to the sentence, which was substantially more lenient than the 15 months of incarceration recommended by the prosecution.
So after more than four years of Scotland Yard investigations, and months of agonising within the Crown Prosecution Service, ministers and MI6 are getting off scot-free over the abduction and subsequent torture of two suspected Islamists.
A grand jury in Manhattan has begun hearing evidence against the man who confessed to killing Etan Patz, a 6-year-old, in 1979, the first direct indication that prosecutors have decided to move forward with a murder prosecution after months of investigating the man's claims, people briefed on the matter said Tuesday.
