Stephen R. Henley

Colonel Stephen R. Henley is an American lawyer and an officer in the United States Army.cite web
url=http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2008/04/02/10/judgesbios.source.prod_affiliate.56.pdf
title=Colonel Stephen R. Henley
page=page 6
publisher=United States Air Force
accessdate=2008-05-29
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He is notable for having been appointed the President of a Guantanamo military commission.

President of a Guantanamo military commission

The first hearing Henley presided over took place on June 19 2008.cite news
url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/576765.html
title=Terror-court general defends his role
publisher=Miami Herald
author=Carol Rosenberg
date=June 20 2008
accessdate=2008-06-20
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Brigadier General Thomas Hartmannthe legal advisor to the convening authority -- the number two in the Office of Military Commissionstestified before the commission.
Captain Keith J. Allred, the President of Salim Ahmed Hamdan's military commission hadpreviously proscribed Hartmann from participating.
Major David Fraktof the United States Air Force Reserve, defending Mohammed Jawad, was challenging Hartmann's role in chossing Mohammed Jawad's case for prosecution.

On August 14 2008 Henley barred Hartmann from any further involvement in Mohammed Jawad's military commission.cite news
url=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hwTQkl5OMC2bd1ydFEoEwau_jaHgD92I83VG4
title=Pentagon official removed from 2nd Gitmo trial
publisher=Associated Press
author=Mike Melia
date=2008-08-14
accessdate=2008-08-14
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fap.google.com%2Farticle%2FALeqM5hwTQkl5OMC2bd1ydFEoEwau_jaHgD92I83VG4&date=2008-08-14 mirror] ] According to Mike Melia, writing for the "Associated Press", Henley ruled that Hartmann: "...compromised his objectivity in public statements aligning himself with prosecutors and defending the Pentagon's system for prosecuting alleged terrorists."

However, Henley chose not to dismiss the charges against Jawad because of Hartmann's controversial conduct. He did rule that Frakt was authorized tosubmit arguments for dropping the charges against Jawad directly to Susan J. Crawford, the Convening Authority, as to whether charges against Jawad were justified.

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