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YouTube: A Lawyer's Secret Weapon

Difficult times call for unconventional measures. And  as described in this post at Legal Pad, unconventional measures, specifically a YouTube video, are what attorney William Teesdale took in a desperate, but as yet unsuccessful, effort to help his client, a Guantanomo detainee,  gain his release.   

Here's the description of Teesdale's Guantanamo Unclassified video, from Legal Pad:

Teesdale has released a short documentary video in which, on a beach in Guantanamo bay, he explains that hospital worker and teacher Adel Hamad has been held for years in detention and denied release even after a member of the military tribunal reviewing his case called his incarceration “unconscionable.” The video includes interviews with Hamad’s coworkers from Afghanistan, where he’d worked for a hospital supported by a charity that the CIA seems to think might have counter-American ideals.

Whether Teesdale's video is successful in gaining his client's release remains to be seen.

Posted by Carolyn Elefant on January 18, 2007 at 03:48 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

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to learn more about Adel Hamad and efforts to restore habeas corpus get involved at:

projecthamad.org

Posted by: david | Jan 19, 2007 11:25:46 AM

WHAT A GOOD IDEA. LET ME VIEDO ACROSS THE STREET FROM FOLSOM PRISON IN FOLSOM CALIFORIA AND SHOW THE WORLD HOW THE MAJORITY OF THE PRISONERS WHO STILL CLAIM TO BE NOT GUILTY ARE TREATED. I THINK MY TIME IS BETTER SPENT WATCHING THE SHOW 24HOURS AND JACK BARER HANDLE THESE INNOCENT INDIVIUALS.

Posted by: FELIX TORRES, JR. | Jan 19, 2007 1:49:17 PM

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