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Eric Holder: One of the things that you can clearly do in an Article III court that you cannot so clearly do in a military commission…

On the recordFebruary 23, 2010
One of the things that you can clearly do in an Article III court that you cannot so clearly do in a military commission is accept a guilty plea in a capital case.
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Eric Holder
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Holder points out a legal advantage of Article III courts over military commissions.

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