Lawyers Find Terrorism Trial Rules Unethical
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Defense lawyers could not do their utmost to represent terrorism suspects tried before military tribunals and thus could not ethically participate in any such trials under rules the Pentagon has laid out, according to the National Assn. of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
“We took the position that it is unethical for a lawyer to represent a client under current conditions for military tribunals, and if a lawyer chose to do so, he or she must contest all of those unethical conditions,” said Barry Scheck, the association’s incoming president.
The organization will issue the ethics statement to its 11,000 members.
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