Jeff Davis (human rights lawyer)

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Jeff Davis is a notable North Carolina attorney. ^[1]

[edit] Law practice

Davis earned his Bachelor of Science and his law degree from the University of Illinois, in 1972 and 1975.^[1] His specialities are Commercial Litigation and Arbitration, Securities Litigation and Arbitration, and Construction. He currently works for the law firm of Moore & Van Allen

[edit] Human rights work

Davis is one of the pro bono attorneys for Guantanamo detainees organized by the Center for Constitutional Rights. He was one of the attorneys for Mani Al-Utaybi, one of the three Guantanamo detainees who died, apparently a suicide, on June 10, 2006. The Department of Defense initially asserted that none of the three dead men had attorneys or had habeas corpus requests filed on their behalf.

Davis contradicted the DoD on both points. Further he described how the attempts of Al-Utaybi's defense team was frustrated at every turn.

Davis described how the DoD struggled to refuse to recognize Al-Utaybi's defense team to meet with Al-Utaybi, and would not deliver their mail to him, claiming that their spelling of his name did not match the transliteration the DoD used.

Al-Utaybi never learned that he had been cleared to return to Saudi Arabia.^[2][3][4]

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} Jeffrey J. Davis (Jeff) official biograpy Moore & Van Allen
2. ^ Guantanamo inmate killed himself 'unaware he was due to be freed', The Scotsman, June 13, 2006
3. ^ DOD Identifies 3 Guantanamo Suicides, Washington Post, June 11, 2006
4. ^ Guantanamo inmate was to be moved, Al Jazeera, June 12, 2006