Reply Brief Available in Khan v. Obama
The public version of Shawali Khan’s reply brief in Khan v. Obama (No. 10-5306), a Guantanamo habeas case currently pending before the D.C. Circuit, is now available.
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The public version of Shawali Khan’s reply brief in Khan v. Obama (No. 10-5306), a Guantanamo habeas case currently pending before the D.C. Circuit, is now available. In this case, petitioner Shawali Khan appeals Judge John Bates’s September 2010 decision denying Khan the writ of habeas corpus.
The petitioner challenges the sufficiency of the government’s evidence on several key issues, including whether Hezb-i-Islami Gulbuddin, the organization to which Judge Bates found Khan to have belonged, was an “associated force engaged in hostilities with the United States and its coalition partners” at the time of Khan’s capture in November 2002.
The petitioner’s opening brief is here. The government’s response brief is here. Oral argument in the case is scheduled for May 13, 2011 before Judges Sentelle, Ginsburg, and Garland.
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Raffaela received her BS and MS in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009 and her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 2015, where she was recognized for her commitment to public service with the Joyce Chiang Memorial Award. While at the Department of Defense, she was the inaugural recipient of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s General Counsel Award for exhibiting the highest standards of leadership, professional conduct, and integrity.
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