Can someone help me understand the meaning of this?

The defendant (or their attorney) has the right to call anyone who could have been connected to the case to testify in court.

It is usually done in an effort by the defense to show that the law was violated when the suspect was originally detained or charged with a crime.

To me, the argument set forth by the Bush Admin. that it would endanger witnesses or impede our ability to capture terrorists is a cop-out.

They know that if certain witnesses are called by the defense, that it will quickly become apparent that most of the defendants were tortured to gain information about other terrorist activities and thus since torture is illegal by US law, the judge will have no choice but to set the defendant free.

well the accused would be allowed to ask a witness to give his/her story in order to defend the accused this could be a friend or colleague tho witnesses could also be the arresting officer if the terrorist was caught by a soldier unit the accused can call the units commanding officer to give evidence

Post this question in the Law and Ethics category and I can guarantee you'll get a much better answer hon.

The basic answer is that you can call any witness you feel would support your case whether you are the prosecutor or the defendant.

In an American trial, the defense gets to call witnesses. They have to have something to do with the case, but it can be anyone.

So, an accused terrorist going to trial could call CIA agents who worked on capturing him to trial, compromising them and thier techniques (since trials are more or less public).

One of the fundamental principals of the American justice system is the right of the accused to confront their accuser. That is if someone alleges that you did something you have the right to have that person do it physically and in open court. What this article is saying is that it is impractical to have a front line Soldier that saw the alleged act be forced to take time out of his/her deployment to answer the summons.

"the right to call witnesses at trial" is the constitutional guarantee to confront your accusors and the ability to put on a proper defense [constitutional right to fair trial].

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dont listen to them it simply means the enemy or the opposing side may call a witness to the stand

well i think if i can remember it right basically your right in a trial is that you can call on any witness you want and as many as you want