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Civilian lawyers defy judge’s order to travel to Guantanamo for case

By Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald
Published: October 29, 2017, 10:36pm

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba–A Pentagon plane arrived at Guantanamo Sunday without three civilian lawyers who quit the USS Cole case, setting the stage for a showdown with the military judge who ordered them to the remote U.S. Naval base in Cuba.

Veteran death-penalty defense attorney Rick Kammen and colleagues Rosa Eliades and Mary Spears resigned from the team Oct.

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