JURIST - Paper Chase: Hamdi may be released from federal custody

Lawyers in Yaser Hamdi's case have asked US District Judge Robert Doumar to stay all proceedings for three weeks in order to allow both sides more time to reach an agreement that would release Hamdi from federal custody. The Supreme Court ruled in June that the government cannot indefinitely detain Hamdi, a US citizen who was captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan, as an enemy combatant without offering him access to the courts. Hamdi's attorney has said that an agreement to release Hamdi from custody is close. AP has more. Read the Supreme Court's decision in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld and coverage of the decision on JURIST's Paper Chase.

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