Day 6 Encore: Lawyers who defend alleged terrorists

This week, the RCMP announced the arrest of John Nuttall and Amanda Korody . The couple are accused of plotting to bomb British Columbia's legislature building in the middle of Canada Day celebrations. Defending alleged terrorists comes with a unique set of challenges and ethical questions for lawyers. Today we revisit a panel discussion that first aired in May; with a group of defense attorneys whose clients are accused or convicted terrorists. John Norris is the attorney for Raed Jaser (one of the men accused of plotting to derail a VIA rail train) and he has also represented members of the Toronto 18 and Omar Khadr, Tamar Birckhead represented Richard Reid in the "shoe bombing" case of the early 2000s, and Ronald Kuby represented Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.