Military Commissions
Updates from the Military Commissions, 11/17: Attorney-Client Confidentiality and the Duty to Withdraw
David Houck Tue, Dec 12, 2017, 7:00 AM
On Nov. 17, 2017, the military commission in United States v. al-Nashiri reconvened for the purpose of receiving testimony from Professor Ellen Yaroshefsky, an ethics advisor to defendant’s learned counsel Richard Kammen, who had previously resigned over undisclosed ethics concerns. The defendant, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was present for the first time in multiple hearings.