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Holding Enemy Combatants In The Wake Of Hamdan, Ronald D. Rotunda
Holding Enemy Combatants In The Wake Of Hamdan, Ronald D. Rotunda
Ronald D. Rotunda
The article offers, inter alia, a succinct survey of the historical and jurisprudential background for the detainee cases and military commissions cases - including a number of important factual details glossed over in most reporting on the cases (e.g., Padilla has stipulated that he was an enemy spy sent to the United States; it was Hamdan's own defense counsel who had asked to exclude him from the voir dire portion of the proceedings) - as well as legal issues that may still arise.