Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Can Actually Win

The universal wisdom is that there is absolutely no chance that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed can get anything but a swift conviction and the death penalty. The wisdom also says that it matters not whether the trial is in New York, another American city, or on the moon. No jury anywhere will be fair, impartial and unbiased. The memory and passions of 9/11 still rage at white hot temperatures. They all could be wrong.
KSM wins no matter what a jury decides. KSM's attorneys will turn the trial into a bully pulpit to expose every sundry, despicable, and patently illegal tactic that the US has dumped into and dug out of its bag of dirty tricks against suspected terrorists--illegal detention, kidnapping, torture, isolation, sleep deprivation, waterboarding, beatings, forced confessions, coercion, and suppression of evidence.
His conviction will be promptly appealed. This will give KSM another chance to publicly dredge up every dirty trick the US used to get him into the docket in the first place. None of this has even the remote bearing on whether he is the mastermind as charged behind the 9/11 attacks. It just gives the government a chance to make an unwelcome revisit of the unprecedented pain and suffering that 9/11 caused. Worse, it gives a terrorist, or in this case a suspected terrorist, a platform to make himself appear a victim of a vengeful government's thirst for revenge that tosses out all rules of constitutional law and conduct to wreak that revenge.