 No, because the ruling would almost certainly be appealed. But if the confessions were tossed, both sides might be motivated to try to negotiate a settlement agreement. Here's what a Guantanamo defense attorney named James Connell told me about that. Anyone who is carefully following what's happening at Guantanamo knows that the prosecution case is in trouble, that the use of torture has in many ways doomed their efforts to prosecute this case. And a negotiated settlement was a good solution.