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[oakenguy]

This post is just to show off my new userpic, compliments of empheliath! I think I'll use it for posts about Rennie, combatty, evil, and heatstroke-related things.

Here's a question, inspired partly by a 'Daily Show' piece which talked about where the U.S. would have to go to find impartial jurors for the Hussein trial (Antarctic penguins)--are there juries for war crime trials? How are the jurors selected?

Comments

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I don't think the UN tribunals use juries and I know Nuremburg and Tokyo didn't. Generally such cases are tried either by a panel of judges or by a military court martial.

[snowwand.livejournal.com]

Check out this page:
http://www.terrorismanswers.com/responses/tribunals.html
Military tribunals are not bound by procedures followed in civilian courts, which derive from the rights guaranteed in the Constitution. According to Defense Department guidelines, military tribunals for foreigners suspected of terrorism

will use juries of three to seven panelists, all of them military officers, not the 12-member public panels used in federal criminal courts;

[badassfaerie.livejournal.com]

So is that you?

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

It is! With much more hair than I now have.

Of course, I've got layers of armor padding my lithe dancer's body. (Yah, that's it.)

[freyja.livejournal.com]

mow!

nice. ^_^

[enidenvy.livejournal.com]

lovely! you should post some larger pictures of you in your journal, so we can all swoon over you. teehee.