Keith J. Allred
Keith Johns Allred | |
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| Born |
January 4, 1955 El Paso, Texas, U.S. |
| Died |
September 11, 2018 (aged 63) Tacoma, Washington, U.S. |
| Burial place |
Larkin Sunset Lawn Cemetery Sandy, Utah |
| Alma mater | University of Washington School of Law |
| Known for | Presided over Guantanamo military commissions |
Keith J. Allred is an American lawyer and officer in the United States Navy.[1]
Military career
[edit | edit source]| 2003 - 2005 |
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| Summer 2006 |
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| 2006-2007 |
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Dismissed all charges against Salim Ahmed Hamdan
[edit | edit source]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]
Allred retired from the military, after 30 years, in 2010.[4] The US Department of Justice appointed him as an immigration judge, in May, 2010.
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Keith J. Allred (Summer 2006). "Combating human trafficking". NATO Review. Retrieved 2007-06-07.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Sergeant Sara Wood (2007-06-04). "Judge Dismisses Charges Against Second Guantanamo Detainee". Department of Defense. Retrieved 2007-06-07.
- ↑ Sergeant Sara Wood (2007-06-04). "Charges Dismissed Against Canadian at Guantanamo". Department of Defense. Retrieved 2007-06-07.
- ↑
"The Executive Office for Immigration Review Swears in Four New Immigration Judges" (PDF). Department of Justice. 2010-05-18. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
From 1979 to Jan. 2010, Judge Allred served in the U.S. Navy in various capacities: in 1995 as general counsel, Naval Medical Center, San Diego, Calif.; in 1999 as circuit trial judge, Western Pacific Judicial Circuit, Yokosuka, Japan; and in 2005 as senior trial judge, Western Judicial Circuit, and military commission judge, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.