Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, who’s accused of leaking high secret army paperwork, has a brand new lawyer who represented a Guantanamo Bay detainee.
Attorney Michael Bachrach, who relies in Manhattan, has been appointed as a lawyer for the 21-year-old federally detained Dighton man.
“Mr. Bachrach’s notable cases include: winning 284 counts of acquittal for Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the first and thus far only Guantanamo Bay detainee to be transferred to civilian custody for trial,” reads the lawyer’s web site.
“Ghailani was found guilty of only one count of a 308-count indictment charging him with the bombings of the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania,” the web site states. “Along the way, Mr. Bachrach and his co-counsel won major victories requiring preclusion of evidence obtained as a result of the torture of their client, as well as requiring the United States government to disclose evidence well beyond what had ever been provided before.”
Teixeira, whereas he was assigned to the 102nd Intelligence Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard at Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod, is accused of leaking nationwide protection categorised data.
The Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office alleges in a felony criticism that Teixeira used his high secret safety clearance as an Air National Guardsman to entry and publish details about the Russia-Ukraine battle and different delicate issues. He’s being charged below the Espionage Act.
Recently, a U.S. Justice of the Peace choose dominated that Teixeira ought to stay detained.
“I find that the United States has proved by a preponderance of the evidence that no condition or combination of conditions will reasonably address the serious risk of flight and obstruction of justice posed by Defendant’s release on conditions,” wrote Judge David Hennessy.
Following that ruling, Teixeira tried to spice up his court-appointed illustration with a non-public lawyer below the Criminal Justice Act (CJA).
“In order to ‘provide high-quality representation consistent with the best practices of the legal profession and commensurate with those services rendered when counsel is privately retained,’ additional appointment of CJA counsel is necessary here because of the complexity and nature of this prosecution and the nature of the evidence and procedures involved,” Teixeira’s federal public defender wrote.
Bachrach serves on the CJA panel for the Southern District of New York and is a member of the CJA Capital Panel for the Southern District of New York, the CJA Capital Panel for the Eastern District of New York, and the CJA Terrorism Panel for the Eastern District of New York.
Bachrach didn’t instantly reply to touch upon Monday.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”