{"id":725211,"date":"2010-04-28T09:28:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T13:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=83365"},"modified":"2010-04-28T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T13:28:05","slug":"khadr-trial-delayed-a-few-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/725211","title":{"rendered":"Khadr Trial Delayed a Few Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GUANTANAMO BAY &#8212; Only two reporters actually got into the courtroom where Omar Khadr&#8217;s pre-trial hearing will take  place to suppress his statements to interrogators. (I wasn&#8217;t one of the reporters: my lottery for the pool coverage had me heading over this afternoon.) But Army Lt. Col. Jon Jackson, one of Khadr&#8217;s military lawyers, just ventured forth to tell the press corps not to bother: the hearing is delayed.<\/p>\n<p>How come? Because of yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/83345\/hours-before-khadr-hearing-begins-gates-signs-manual-for-military-commissions\">late-breaking release of the Manual for the military commissions<\/a>. Col. Pat Parrish, the judge hearing the case, ordered a delay until 1 p.m. so that prosecution and defense counsel (and, perhaps, he himself) can familiarize themselves with the Manual&#8217;s prescriptions for the commissions&#8217; rules of evidence and procedure.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in the afternoon pool to sit in the courtroom. There&#8217;s no way to communicate with the outside world inside the super-secure courtroom. (I can&#8217;t even tweet!) So I&#8217;ll have to update you from the hearing after the session concludes, probably in the early evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUANTANAMO BAY &#8212; Only two reporters actually got into the courtroom where Omar Khadr&#8217;s pre-trial hearing will take place to suppress his statements to interrogators. (I wasn&#8217;t one of the reporters: my lottery for the pool coverage had me heading over this afternoon.) But Army Lt. Col. Jon Jackson, one of Khadr&#8217;s military lawyers, just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-32EX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}