[1] From 2005 to 2007, he served as the Chief Defense Counsel for the Office of Military Commissions.
[3] Prior to his role in defending the Guantanamo Bay detainees he worked with the Maryland office of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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[5] CAAFlog currently features over a dozen contributors with experience in the field of U.S. military law.
[7] The court wrote that no U.S. federal jurisdiction authorized the death penalty for child rape,[8] but Sullivan pointed out that this was not true because Congress had specifically authorized the death penalty for such offenses as part of the 2006 amendments to the UCMJ.