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- Title
"I Did Not Come Here To Defend Myself": Responding to War on Terror Detainees' Attempts To Dismiss Counsel and Boycott the Trial.
- Authors
Bloom, Matthew
- Abstract
A significant portion of the war on terror detainees who have been charged at Guantanamo have announced their intentions to dismiss their attorneys, to waive their right to be present at their trials, or to take both actions simultaneously so that their interests will not be represented. This Note demonstrates that strong justifications, rooted in international and domestic legal rules and precedent, support honoring the detainees' requests. Yet the military tribunal proceedings are designed to follow the adversarial model to achieve just outcomes; granting the detainees' procedural requests can, in certain situations, undermine the ability of the military commissions to reach just outcomes in favor of the personal whims of the detainees. `When a detainee's procedural request threatens to undermine the adversarial model, I propose that military adjudicators appoint an amicus curiae counsel to provide sufficient process on behalf of the tribunal.
- Subjects
GUANTANAMO (Cuba); CUBA; PRISONERS of war; WAR on Terrorism, 2001-2009; UNITED States military history, 21st century; PRISONERS; COURTS-martial &; courts of inquiry; CRIMINAL courts; MILITARY law
- Publication
Yale Law Journal, 2007, Vol 117, Issue 1, p70
- ISSN
0044-0094
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/20455784