On a serious note, I guess the biggest question is WHY would you want to defend, what at least to the American public, appears to be mostly radicalized individuals with at least some desire to cause harm to the US? Do you feel that some of the detainees simply have done nothing wrong, so your goal is to fight for them, while pressing through the ones you know are guilty? Or is it just a basic ideological contempt for how these people are being prosecuted?
Do you believe that someone, for lack of a better term enemy combatant, deserves to be afforded anything resembling US legal rights?
If you could put together your dream scenario for how to handle those that are captured and placed at GitMo, what would that look like? Should we not capture anyone? Should they be held in US prisons with access to the US criminal justice system? How and when should we release those that we have gathered intel from, but are not worth prosecuting? How should we deal with punishing those found guilty? Should those that are clearly guilty (lets say overwhelming video evidence) before any type of trial be handled? Should they be afforded the full legal process? How should we punish those found guilty through a system that you would design, assuming they were afforded the legal rights you would want, and the trial types you would want?
Do you feel your client is likely guilty of some sort of crimes, but you object to the manner of prosecution, or do you feel that your client is 100% innocent?
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On a serious note, I guess the biggest question is WHY would you want to defend, what at least to the American public, appears to be mostly radicalized individuals with at least some desire to cause harm to the US? Do you feel that some of the detainees simply have done nothing wrong, so your goal is to fight for them, while pressing through the ones you know are guilty? Or is it just a basic ideological contempt for how these people are being prosecuted?
Do you believe that someone, for lack of a better term enemy combatant, deserves to be afforded anything resembling US legal rights?
If you could put together your dream scenario for how to handle those that are captured and placed at GitMo, what would that look like? Should we not capture anyone? Should they be held in US prisons with access to the US criminal justice system? How and when should we release those that we have gathered intel from, but are not worth prosecuting? How should we deal with punishing those found guilty? Should those that are clearly guilty (lets say overwhelming video evidence) before any type of trial be handled? Should they be afforded the full legal process? How should we punish those found guilty through a system that you would design, assuming they were afforded the legal rights you would want, and the trial types you would want?
Do you feel your client is likely guilty of some sort of crimes, but you object to the manner of prosecution, or do you feel that your client is 100% innocent?
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