Justice Gombosuren Ganzorig of the Supreme Court of the Peoples Republic of Mongolia copresided over an actual felony criminal jury trial last April in a State court in Hawaii. This experience was repeated in December for Dr. Bakhtiyar R. Tuzmukhamedov, international law expert with the Constitutional Court of Russia. Both Justice Ganzorig and Dr.Tuzmukhamedov were guests in my trial court in Maui, Hawaii.
This program, dubbed a Court Observer Program, is a follow-on to a training seminar about the U.S. military justice system conducted by a team from the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) for judges and lawyers in Mongolia in August, 1997 at Ulaanbaatar. I …