David Hicks keen to clear name: father

[struggle4progress]

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Tim Dornin
January 23, 2009 - 2:29PM

Convicted terrorism supporter David Hicks will take up any opportunity presented by the new US administration to clear his name, his father says ...

In March 2007, under a plea bargain, he was sentenced to seven years jail but ordered to serve only nine months with the rest of his sentence suspended ...

"It's going to be interesting because if he (President Obama) is going to put these people of interest through the normal court system, then that would suggest that rulings of the military commissions have been overturned," Terry Hicks said.

"And if the commissions are overturned it brings up the issue of David being wrongly convicted in the first place" ...



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[knowbody0]

1. thanks

I've been wondering about him

[Matilda]

2. There is a difference, in that Hicks "confessed".

We all know that his confession was a ruse to get him out of Gitmo, but
legally, there is a confession, so I don't know where it leaves him.

[struggle4progress]

3. That might be a cogent objection, under normal judicial conditions: when, however,

the detainee faces indefinite detention without real access to the full charges in a context where other detainees are tortured, the allocution, admitting guilt as part of a plea package, may warrant scrutiny in review

[Zhade]

4. Yeah, there's no way he was tortured into confessing.

I'm not saying that happened... but then again, it could have.

[struggle4progress]

5. The mere prospect of spending the rest of one's life in a Guantanamo cell ...

... might induce many people to "confess"