Re: [Marxism] Appeals Court rapes justice etc.

["Eli Stephens" <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From the news coverage, read the fine print:

> The federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled yesterday...

> ?But military detention of al-Marri must cease,? Judge Diana Gribbon Motz
> wrote for the majority of a divided three-judge panel.

> In a statement, the Justice Department said it would ask the full Fourth
> Circuit to rehear the case, which could eventually reach the Supreme Court.

We should note that this is PRECISELY what happened to the Cuban Five - a 
divided three-judge panel of a Federal Appeal Court (in Atlanta in that 
case, in Richmond in this) ruled that their trial had been a fraud, but 
rather than set them free, the government kept them in jail and appealed the 
case to the full court (a virtually unprecedented action according to the 
attorneys). A FULL YEAR LATER, on Aug. 9, 2006, after no doubt intense 
pressure was applied from above, the full court reversed the decision of the 
three-judge panel, leaving the original trial verdict to stand (and the Five 
still unjustly imprisoned).

Eli Stephens
 Left I on the News
 http://lefti.blogspot.com

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