Professor Amann Quoted in The Los Angeles Times

Professor Dianne Marie Amann, a former clerk of Justice John Paul Stevens, was interviewed for an article about Stevens, who wrote the recent Supreme Court ruling that accused war criminals must be tried, as the Geneva Convention requires.

 

Stevens was speaking for the 5-3 majority in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld, which rejected the Bush administration's special rules for military tribunals because, the court said, the rules did not offer defendants a fair trial.

"Even in times of emergency, we have to live up to the traditions of the law," Amann said.

 

June 6, 2006/The Los Angeles Times

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