Prosecutors Are Expected to Seek Dismissal of Charges Against Bin Laden

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/nyregion/with-bin-ladens-death-seeking-the-dismissal-of-all-charges.html?scp=1&sq=prosecutors%20are%20expected%20to%20seek&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:26 AM
Subject: re: Prosecutors Are Expected to Seek Dismissal of Charges Against Bin Laden
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editors:

    Osama bin Laden's extensive charge sheet was abruptly rendered moot when he was killed while resisting arrest.  It continues however to shine an unflattering glare on Anwar al-Awlaki's charge sheet.  Mr. al-Awlaki has never been charged with a crime in the U.S. system.  To kill him as president Obama has ordered away from the battlefield, without any charges would open a new and shameful chapter on the exercise of American power.

Barry Levine