Trial Judge Precludes Prosecution from Calling Witness Due to Product of Statements by Accused to CIA Under Duress

On October 5, 2010, U.S. District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan issued an order granting the motion of defendant, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, to preclude the prosecution from calling Hussein Abebe as a witness against him on the ground that Abebe’s testimony would be the product of statements made by Ghailani to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) under duress. Mr. Ghailani is charged with murder and other offenses in connection with the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania...(more)...