THE GWOT'S PROFESSIONAL WITNESS: Guaranteed convictions

The recent conviction of Mohammed Atif Siddique on terror charges highlighted the role of globetrotting professional witness Evan Kohlmann. Defenders in the US and UK have come to recognize him as a figure brought in to furnish opinions which are only of use to prosecutions in the frightening of juries. Kohlmann was also tapped by New Scotland Yard and the Crown in the well known case which resulted in the recent conviction of al-Qaeda's super-cyber 007, Younis Tsouli.

For the past couple of years, Kohlmann has been reasonably ubiquitous in US news reports on terrorism, usually in your backyard, even if you cannot perceive it.

In the US, defenders have tried to have Kohlmann barred from presenting testimony, with poor results. In cases traced through a Lexis search, all those in which Kohlmann participated as a paid witness for the prosecution, the US government prevailed.

Naturally, it is not quite as simple as all that and you can read the rest about it in today's issue of the Reg here.