Department of Defense has built a $12 million "Expeditionary Legal Complex" in Guantánamo with a courtroom designed to protect classified information, and capable of trying the alleged co-conspirators before one judge and jury. Court personnel, prosecutors, defense attorneys, victims and family members of victims, as well as members of the press and non-governmental organizations, all traveled to Guantanamo Naval Station for the arraignment.
KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED TRIAL
The trial began in June 5, 2008, with the arraignment. The trial was first presided over by military judge Colonel Ralph Kohlmann, U.S. Crawford determined that, as a result, he could not be prosecuted. Later, it was revealed that the military commission Convening Authority ( Susan Crawford, at the time) who referred the charges had seen evidence that the additional detainee originally charged, Mohammed al-Qhatani, had been tortured in military custody. By the time charges were "referred" (the military procedural equivalent of an indictment) in May 2008, there were only five accused.
On February 11, 2008, at a Pentagon press briefing, original charges were announced by Brigadier General Thomas W. This image, the first to be made public following Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's capture, stirred controversy, because Janet Hamlin, the courtroom illustrator, was called upon to redraw the image when Mohammed said the original version made his nose too large. government is seeking the death penalty against each of the men. The murder charge involves 2,973 individual counts of murder – one for each person killed in the 9/11 attacks. If convicted, the five will face the possibility of the death penalty. The charges, which were brought in 2011, are the following: attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects, intentionally causing serious bodily injury, murder in violation of the law of war, destruction of property in violation of the law of war, hijacking or hazarding a vessel or aircraft, terrorism, and providing material support for terrorism. The five men are charged under the military commission system, as established by Congress under the Military Commissions Act of 2006. 6 Transfer of the case back to a military commission.
5 Transfer of the case to a civilian court.