9/11 trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and co-defendants
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Military Judge Suppresses Confession of 9/11 Defendant Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
A military judge threw out a confession delivered by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to FBI agents, finding that it was not given voluntarily.
Case prosecutor Rear Adm. Aaron C. Rugh stated that the government would soon decide whether to file an appeal.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is accused of developing the plot to crash planes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.
“Now, whether that fits within what is required legally, based on other activities, a court's got to decide that,”
Military Judge Suppresses Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Confession in 9/11 Case
Judge Michael Schrama set a trial start date of June 5, 2028, for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three co-defendants.
A U.S. military judge threw out Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's 2007 confession to the FBI, ruling it was not voluntary and cannot be used at trial.
A plea agreement accepted by a Guantanamo war tribunal official was revoked shortly after by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
“Whether viewed as the unbroken continuation of the CIA's psychological conditioning and severe coercion, or evaluated strictly on the inherently coercive conditions and deliberate denial of rights advisements during the January 2007 FBI LHM questioning itself, the Prosecution has failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that Mr. Mohammed’s statements to the FBI were voluntarily given,”
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 9/11 case: trial date set and confession thrown out
Military judge Lt. Col. Michael Schrama wrote that statements made by Mohammed to investigators in 2007 were not given voluntarily.
A military judge threw out part of a confession made by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had a plea deal that would have allowed him to avoid a death-penalty trial, but it was thrown out by a federal appeals court.
9/11 trial for accused including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed set for June 2028
Mohammed and two of his co-defendants struck a deal in 2024 that would have spared them the possibility of the death penalty in exchange for a guilty plea.
Schrama turned down a prosecution bid to open the trial in early 2027.
Mohammed was captured by US forces in Pakistan in March 2003.
Military trial date set for alleged 9/11 mastermind
A 2014 Senate report found that the CIA waterboarded Mohammed 183 times.
Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Schrama rejected the January 2027 start date proposed by prosecutors and set the trial date for about 18 months later.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been held at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, since 2006.