Everyone agrees that, under US law, the jurisdiction of military tribunals is limited to violations of the laws of war, so if conspiracy cannot be charged, Hamdan and others like him cannot be tried in any military courts, not just the ad hoc commissions. In order to resolve the question of whether conspiracy constitutes a crime under the laws of war, Justice Stevens followed the arguments made in the brief that I submitted on behalf of Experts on Conspiracy and the Law of War.
每个人都同意,根据美国法律,军事法庭只能管辖违反战争法的案件，因此，如果不能指控同谋罪，不仅仅是 特别 军事法庭 ， 任何 军事法庭都不能审判哈姆丹和其他与之相似的人。为了解决同谋是否属于战争法范畴的问题，史蒂文斯法官接受了我代表同谋和战争法专家组提交的案情摘要中提出的观点。