Federal judge orders release of documents from 2009 Blackwater case

A federal judge ordered the release of redacted documents from a 2009 hearing over whether the government used immunized statements of Blackwater guards on trial for a 2007 Baghdad shooting. -DB

Courthouse News Service
January 8, 2010
By Avery Fellow

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ordered the released of redacted documents from last year’s hearing examining whether the [...]

Federal judge closes hearings to public in trial of Blackwater security guards charged with manslaughter in Iraq

A U.S. district judge closed the Blackwater manslaughter pretrial hearings to the public, he said, to enable a fair trial by shielding witnesses and potential jurors from a flurry of media reports. -DB

The Washington Post
October 15, 2009
By Del Quentin Wilber
A federal judge blocked the public Wednesday from attending a critical set of pretrial hearings in [...]