Omar Khadr likely to sue Ottawa for millions for complicity in his torture

[Possum Trot]

This whole thread is ludicrous. If he gets his conviction overturned go right ahead otherwise no court is going to give him a dime. Anyone with the sense of a three year old can figure that out.

 

[landscaper]

I believe he would ahe to get an american court to overrule his conviction, I don't think a Canadian court could, or rather a Canadian court could overturn a decision but what effect would it have?

 

[Aardvark154]

I believe he would ahe to get an american court to overrule his conviction.

Considering that he executed a plea agreement with the full advice of counsel , hugely unlikely. That his Civilian Lawyer then came out of the court room and argued that black is white and white is black has nothing to do with the point that in open court O.K. admitted that he had committed every criminal act with which he was charged. This case is not going to be reopened.

 

[Possum Trot]

So at least the rationale people are in agreement then.

 

[landscaper]

Considering that he executed a plea agreement with the full advice of counsel , hugely unlikely. That his Civilian Lawyer then came out of the court room and argued that black is white and white is black has nothing to do with the point that in open court O.K. admitted that he had committed every criminal act with which he was charged. This case is not going to be reopened.

Pretty much what I figured , I was thinking more along the lines of if a Canadian court overturned the american verdict... and I just can not see that

a) Happening
B) Mattering

 

[fuji]

Considering that he executed a plea agreement with the full advice of counsel , hugely unlikely.

Unless he challenges the legality of the court itself. An illegal court can't render a legal conviction, no matter what process it pretends to have followed. Whether he will do that I don't know--he might be satisfied to sue the Canadian government for allowing him to be tried by an illegal court.

I can't believe you have such a hard time grasping that when faced with an unfair, biased, and crooked court someone who enters a plea deal is actually being extorted. I don't see his plea deal as being in ANY way voluntary, given the unfair, biased, and unethical process he faced at Gitmo.

 

[Aardvark154]

Unless he challenges the legality of the court itself.

Which once again will go nowhere. You can argue about this until the cows come home, the realities of the situation are that neither legaly, nor politically does this have any "legs".

 

[landscaper]

Unless he challenges the legality of the court itself. An illegal court can't render a legal conviction, no matter what process it pretends to have followed. Whether he will do that I don't know--he might be satisfied to sue the Canadian government for allowing him to be tried by an illegal court.

I can't believe you have such a hard time grasping that when faced with an unfair, biased, and crooked court someone who enters a plea deal is actually being extorted. I don't see his plea deal as being in ANY way voluntary, given the unfair, biased, and unethical process he faced at Gitmo.

aparantly there is a reason you are not a lawyer