Citing a long wait for trial, lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee have asked a judge to dismiss charges against him in the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.
The lawyers for Ahmed Ghailani made the arguments in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan and released Tuesday.
They said their client's case raised the question of whether national security can trump an indicted defendant's constitutional right to a speedy trial.
"We respectfully submit that the answer is empathetically and without qualification, `No,'" the lawyers wrote.
Janice Oh, a spokeswoman for federal prosecutors in Manhattan, said …
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