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April 30, 2009

Report: Plea Deal Discussed in Marri Case
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Meanwhile, the Washington Post is reporting prosecutors and defense
attorneys are negotiating a guilty plea for Ali al-Marri, who has been
the only so-called “enemy combatant” jailed in the United States. Marri
has been held in isolation without trial at a naval brig in South
Carolina for more than five years. The Obama administration charged him
earlier this year to avoid a Supreme Court hearing challenging his
indefinite jailing. Under the proposed deal, Marri would plead guilty to
a single conspiracy charge carrying a fifteen-year sentence.



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