National Post | 11Aug2010 | Orest Slepokura
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/grotesque+legal+charade/3383290/story.html#ixzz0wJlVTSIm
... or
a 'grotesque legal charade'?
In Alice's Wonderland trial, the Queen overseeing it blithely informs
Alice of its backward nature: "Sentence first -- verdict afterwards."
After which, she's quite prepared to entertain some evidence pertaining
to the case.
In Omar Khadr's case, the damning sequence will have been torture first
-- confession afterwards. After which, the court will be quite prepared
to enter Khadr's confessions into evidence in order to condemn him.
The military judge won't, I'm sure, punctuate the proceedings with
spontaneous exclamations of "Off with his head!"
But it now very much looks as if that is to be the purpose for this
grotesque legal charade.
Orest Slepokura, Strathmore, Alta.
http://www.thestar.com/Opinion/Letters/article/849563