The conviction of Ahmed Ghailani in the al Qaida conspiracy to bomb U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 was upheld Thursday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
A three-judge panel held that Ghailani’s rights under the Speedy Trial Clause of the Sixth Amendment were not violated by his extended detention and interrogation abroad by the Central Intelligence Agency and then by the Department of Defense at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base—a delay of over five years before his 2009 transfer to New York for trial.
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