Military tribunals to look like courts-martial cases

Thursday, March 21, 2002

WASHINGTON -- Terror suspects tried before military tribunals would have many of the legal rights given defendants accused of other crimes, but prosecutors could use evidence that probably would be tossed out of an ordinary American court, a U.S. official said Wednesday.

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