Supreme court almost vindicates trial rights
The US Supreme Court almost vindicated the trial rights of persons seized within the territorial United States by vacating an appellate court judgment in the case of al-Marri v. The case involved legal US resident Ali al-Marri, a citizen of Qatar who has been detained without charges since 2001.
Testimony of relatives can be a strong evidence since they seldom shield the actual culprit to implicate an innocent person as it is against human conduct, the Supreme Court has held.