Criminal Justice
Terrorism Trial Scorecard
A little over a year ago, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a 68-page report that listed what the DOJ considers the country’s major terrorism cases.
In an article that is part of a special terrorism issue, the ABA Journal now uses the report as a basis for a scorecard of how well the government has handled post-9/11 terrorism prosecutions in the DOJ’s legal war against al-Qaida. The tally: 31 wins, 6 losses and 1 tie.
The scorecard, the article notes, “evaluates the strength of the government’s cases, not whether the defendants were terrorists.” Read the full story.
