Law & Disorder: Amnesty International calls for tempora ry visas to be granted to t wo wives of the ‘Cuban Five’

listen to the radio program, taped, by clicking on the link below (WBAI archives) and seeking the program that

begins 10 AM EST, ie:

http://archive.wbai.org/ - Monday, February 12, 2007 10:00 am

(the 'Cuban Five' segment is in the last half-hour of the program)

see also the Law & Disorder website: http://www.lawanddisorder.org/

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Amnesty International calls for temporary visas to be granted to two wives of the 'Cuban Five'

In the past month several legal developments have occurred in the case of the Cuban Five. In January the defense argued four key issues in a supplement brief. Those issues are: first, the conspiracy to commit murder charge should be discharged; second, the conspiracy to espionage should be reversed for insufficiency of evidence; third, the sentencing on the espionage charges were grossly out of line with existing law; and forth, the prosecution committed misconduct. Finally application of the Classified Information Procedures Act provisions was wrong in this case. Here's the situation: If the two judges can't agree, the chief judge of the 11th Circuit appoints a third judge to join in the decision-making. You must have two judges in agreement in order to have a valid decision by the appellate court. If the two judges agree, however, that's the end of it. For more information visit They Will Return.

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Guest - Leonard Weinglass, lawyer for Antonio Guerrero, to talk about yet an additional aspect that has plagued the case since the five were incarcerated: the US government's failure to allow families to visit the Five.