David Hicks may be cleared, open to compensation
Several legal challenges to the validity of the Guantanamo Bay prison military commissions are already under way in the US.
Should they succeed, constitutional lawyer George Williams said David Hicks's guilty plea would be invalid. "That puts him in a very strong position," Professor Williams said.
Hicks may yet be cleared of his terror conviction, lawyers say, leaving the way open to sue for compensation for seven months in Yatala Labour Prison.
The Australian newspaper reports that government moves to block Hicks from profiting by selling his story could backfire by providing the trigger for him to appeal against his terrorism conviction in Australia.
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