The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by September 11 defendants seeking to reinstate plea agreements that had been revoked.

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The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from the five Guantanamo detainees charged in the September 11 attacks, who had sought to revive plea deals they reached with military prosecutors. The deals — which included guilty pleas in exchange for life sentences — had been rejected by the Secretary of Defense, and the lower courts upheld that rejection. The Court's refusal to weigh in leaves the plea agreements void and the cases headed back toward death-penalty litigation.

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The claim is drawn from a secondary news aggregation (The Hill) without a cited primary source, but it concerns a public, objective action — the Supreme Court denying certiorari. As reported, it matches the known procedural history of the 9/11 military commission cases, though the specific order and reasoning are not quoted directly.

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