Keith J. Allred

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Keith J. Allred is an American lawyer and officer in the United States Navy.[1]

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[edit] Military career

2003 - 2005
  • Professor at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies.[1]
Summer 2006
2006-2007

[edit] Dismissed all charges against Salim Ahmed Hamdan

On June 4, 2007 Allred dismissed all charges against Salim Ahmed Hamdan.[2] Hamdan had been one of the first four Guantanamo captives to face charges before a military commission. It was Hamdan's habeas corpus request, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, that resulted in the United States Supreme Court ruling that the first version of the Guantanamo military commissions were unconstitutional.

The United States Congress, which the Supreme Court had ruled did have the constitutional authority to institute miliatry commissions passed the Military Commissions Act in the fall of 2006.[2]

Allred, and Peter Brownback, the officer presiding over Omar Khadr's Tribunal, ruled that the since the Act only authorized the Commissions to try "unlawful enemy combatants", and that Hamdan and Khadr's Combatant Status Review Tribunals had merely confirmed that the captives were "enemy combatants", the Commissions lacked jurisdiction.[2][3]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Keith J. Allred (Summer 2006). Combating human trafficking. NATO Review. Retrieved on June 7, 2007.
  2. ^ a b c d Sergeant Sara Wood. "Judge Dismisses Charges Against Second Guantanamo Detainee", Department of Defense, June 4, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-6-7. 
  3. ^ Sergeant Sara Wood. "Charges Dismissed Against Canadian at Guantanamo", Department of Defense, June 4, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-6-7. 
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