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Terror trials appear headed out of NYC, but to where...?

By Douglas A. Berman

I was hoping that a fringe benefit of being a visiting professor at Fordham Law School this semester was going to be a chance to head to downtown Manhattan to watch some of the early legal action in the planned criminal trials of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other accused Sept. 11 plotters.   However, as explained in this article in today's New York Times, which is headlined "U.S. Drops Plan for a 9/11 Trial in New York City," it looks like these trial are heading out of NYC: The Obama administration on Friday gave up on its plan to try the Sept. 11 plotters in Lower Manhattan, bowing to almost unanimous pressure from New York officials and business leaders to move the terrorism trial elsewhere. ?I think I can acknowledge the obvious,? an administration official said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 30, 2010 (boomark / email).