1. He is being tried in a military court rather than in a civilian court. 2. Another crucial difference is that the rules for courts-martial are similar to those of civilian courts in requiring hearsay and other questionable evidence to be excluded. 3. A bill that would have subjected the military police to trial in civilian courts was defeated in the Senate last week after passing in the House. 4. A civilian court found Agosti guilty in connection with eight cases of torture and sentenced him to four and a half years in prison. 5. A new trial in civilian court is planned. 6. A Rome civilian court is to decide later this month whether to keep the trial before the military court. 7. Administration officials have designed the military tribunals to be outside the civilian court system. 8. After the men were caught, President Roosevelt ordered them tried by a military tribunal for war crimes, with no access to civilian courts and juries. 9. All such cases should have been transferred to civilian courts. 10. Bush was satisfied that a civilian court trial would not jeopardize sensitive intelligence sources, Fleischer said. |