Steven T. Wax

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Steve Wax is a lawyer in the United States State of Oregon.[1] Wax has headed Oregon's Federal Public Defender Office for 21 years.

Wax is one of seven Oregon lawyers who has volunteered to defend those held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[2]

Wax defended Brandon Mayfield, the Oregon convert to Islam, who was falsely accused of a role in the Spanish al Qaeda train bombing.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Hi, my name is Steve Wax. I'm 56 years old. I am the head of the Federal Public Defender Office here in Oregon, PBS, June 23, 2005 mirror (.pdf)
  2. ^ Oregon lawyer doesn't expect quick action, Register Guard, June 30, 2006
  3. ^ FBI apologizes to lawyer held in Madrid bombings: Man feels he was singled out because he’s Muslim, MSNBC, May 25, 2004


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