Yesterday, the United States made history, the first African-American man to be elected President was Inaugurated. Shortly then after Barack Obama sent a notice to all prosecutors in Guantanamo Bay Prison to halt all legal proceedings for the next 120 days.
This no doubt will come with protests from those on the right that feel that the people being held there are too dangerous to be released. But as recent news reports show many of the men there are already being released because of the lack of evidence to show that they actually did something wrong or committed some violent act against the United States.
The 120-day delay is meant to give the new Obama administration some time to review the legal cases.
During the campaign, Barack Obama, said a number of times that he would close Guantanamo Bay if he became President, this is clearly the first step to that.
As many of you know the Constitution of the United States guarantees you (and anyone in the US) certain rights to a fair trial.
One of the things that I am wondering about is that because of all the people that have been released or might be released at a later date without prosecution, will these people file some sort of class action lawsuit against the government? I doubt many lawyers would want to take such a complicated case. Though there are a few class actions lawyers like LA Based Ringler, Kearney, Alvarez LLP, that might be willing and able to take the cases of those men.
Another question I have is that will some of the guards, translators and/or civilians at Gitmo be given Whitleblower status for testifying against the Military. In cases like those Whisle Blower Lawyer, Mike Khouri might come in handy.
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