The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which has provided many of the lawyers representing Guantanamo detainees, said it believed the charges against al-Qahtani had been dropped because he had been tortured. "The government's claims a'gainst our client were based on unreliable evidence obtained through torture at Guantanamo," the group said. According to Clive Stafford Smith, a British lawyer who represents a number of.Guantanamo detainees, [Thomas Hartmann] "was basically telling (Col. [Morris Davis]) what to do and saying, 'Look, there's an election coming up. It's in November. We've got to have prosecutions now against the highprofile guys. It doesn't matter if you're not ready to prosecute them, but we need Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on trial because of electioneering.' Much of ...
...335 (1963). . (69.) See Anthony Paduano & Clive A. Stafford Smith, The Unconscionability of Sub-Mi...
Attorneys Clive Stafford Smith and Ahmad Ghappour could face six months in a U.S. prison because of a letter they sent to President Barack Obama explaining their client's allegations of torture by U. S. agents. Smith and Ghappour represent Binyam Mohamed, the British resident recently released after seven years in U.
...With him on the briefs were Paul M. Smith and Clive A. Stafford Smith. Mary Beth Westmorelan...
...With him on the briefs were Paul M. Smith and Clive A. Stafford Smith. Mary Beth Westmorelan...
LONDON - A group opposed to the death penalty filed suit Tuesday to try to prevent a British company from exporting a drug that could be used in the execution of an American inmate. Reprieve, a London-based rights group, and the London law firm Leigh Day & Co. are suing in the hope of forcing the government to regulate the export of sodium thiopental. The sedative, which is part of the three-drug cocktail used in lethal injections in the U.S., was scheduled to be exported from Britain to Tennessee imminently, Reprieve said.
... export of these drugs," Reprieve Director Clive Stafford Smith said at a news conference. "But the...
In May 2002, eight months after the 9/11 attacks, [Padilla] was arrested at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, accused of plotting to explode a crude radioactive bomb. He spent three and a half years at the Charleston Naval Brig in South Carolina as an "enemy combatant." In December 2005, when an imminent Supreme Court deadline could have forced a precedent-setting review of his military imprisonment, the [Bush] administration changed his status from "enemy combatant" to criminal defendant. Pending a review of his mental competency, he now faces a civilian jury in Miami on federal charges of conspiring to participate in and aid "violent jihad" in Bosnia and Chechnya in the late '90s. Robert Chesney, who specializes in national security law at Wake Forest University, has compared th...
...'s genitals, according to his attorney, Clive Stafford Smith. Mohamed's case may one day be hear...
...Sorkin, Marshall Cox, Anthony Paduano, and Clive A. Stafford Smith. Marvin L. White, Jr., Assistan...
...CHANDLER and CLIVE. STAFFORD SMITH ,. Plaintiffs-Ap...
...Consider, for example, a lecture given by Clive Smith--a detainee counsel whom Professor Luban cit...., Stockman, supra note 52 (quoting Clive Stafford Smith as saying the Boston firm dedicating huge pr...
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