If the predictions of this paper are true we expect to observe more hearings for cases with more people and more counts involved but we expect that most number of hearings involve events with one person and two counts.
The public should be allowed to observe the hearings on judges suspected of serious misconduct, the state's chief judge said.
Karen J. Greenberg, executive director of the Center on Law and Security at New York University who observed the hearings on Mr. Abebe and is a strong advocate for trying detainees in civilian court, characterized the order as a "step forward for the rule of law, and therefore it cannot be a setback for the government".
Can't observe the hearings, can't review the files.
"Visitors observe the hearings behind sound-proof glass, with an audio feed that runs 40 seconds behind.
When you enter the courtroom to observe the hearings, you immediately hit the wall of body odor that comes from a group of 75 people wearing the clothes they were apprehended in — sitting next to each other in row after row, with barely an inch between them.
But I remember vividly what it was like for me and other applicants, and also what I as a Coastal Commissioner discovered in reading hundreds or thousands of pages monthly in preparation for hearings in executive and public session and I what I observed at those hearings.
As Arlen Specter, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, observed last week, "The hearings are really, in effect, a subtle minuet, with the nominee answering as many questions as he thinks necessary in order to be confirmed".
They also observed seven court hearings and spoke to disabled victims, representatives from witness care units, the witness service, victim support and a number of independent disability advocates.
A set of previous hearings observed by a consultant to Human Rights First in September were similar: neither the government nor the personal representative presented any witnesses, and, needless to say, there was no cross-examination.
