Mrs Sheridan denies making false statements on 31 July 2006, after being sworn in as a witness in the civiljurytrial at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.
Beyond this invocation of the Public Safety Rule, Tsarneav will be accorded all the rights of due process prescribed by the Constitution, including a civiltrial before a jury of his peers.
He alleges the SEC's administrative action would deny him his right to a jurytrial and other procedural safeguards available if the case had been brought in civil court.