City Bar Justice Center Observes Guantánamo Trials

City Bar Justice Center Executive Director Lynn Kelly and former City Bar Executive Director Barbara Berger Opotowsky share the details of their recent trips to Guantánamo Bay in a New York Law Journal essay.

As NGO observers from the New York City Bar Association’s Military Affairs and Justice Committee, Kelly and Opotowsky viewed pretrial proceedings  in 9/11 cases in which the U.S. government is seeking the death penalty. The essay describes the government’s strict monitoring measures at Guantánamo and the outlook for the legal processes:

“Our report on the current status of these death penalty proceedings can be summarized as follows: ongoing delay and proliferation of pretrial motions with no trial in sight, a decade after the prisoners were moved to Guantánamo.”

Read the full essay here: http://bit.ly/1ZNJLDP