The decision undoes an attempt to wrap up more than two decades of military prosecution beset by legal and logistical ...

A federal appeals court determined that former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “indisputably” had the authority to cancel plea ...

The 2-1 D.C. Circuit appeals court decision upheld then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s decision to undo the plea deal approved by military lawyers and senior Pentagon staff.

The deal would have allowed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to avoid the death penalty in exchange for life without parole.

A U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit panel upheld then-defense secretary Lloyd Austin’s withdrawal ...

Washington, DC – An appeals court in the United States has validated the decision of former Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin to ...

The court found that Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III had the authority to invalidate a contract reached between the ...

A divided federal appeals court has scrapped an agreement that would have allowed the alleged September 11 mastermind Khalid ...

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Friday threw out plea agreements for three Guantánamo detainees accused of conspiring in the September 11 attacks, clearing the way for the government ...

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sought to avoid the death penalty under the plea deal which a court threw out on Friday ...

The court ruled 2-1 against allowing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-defendants to plead guilty under agreements that would ...

An appeals court on Friday denied Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and two of his co-defendants plea deals that would have eliminated the death penalty.