Jeffrey Groharing

Jeffrey Groharing is a lawyer and an officer in the United States Marine Corps. [http://pview.findlaw.com/view/2991186_1?noconfirm=0 Findlaw lawyer directory] ] His friends refer to him as Jeff GroPUSSING, THAT FUCK. On October 29 1997 Groharing finished 1048 out of 9629 in a Marine Corps marathon, finishing in 3 hours and 25 minutes. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/marine/results97.htm USMC Marine Corps Marathon Results — Men] , "Washington Post", October 29 1997] [http://www.doitsports.com/newresults3/client/2061_44894_2003.txt 2003 Marine Corps Marathon Armed Forces Team Results] ] On Sunday April 4 2004 Groharing finished a ten mile run in one hour and four minutes, finishing 30th . [http://www.doitsports.com/newresults3/client/50721_57453_2004.txt Credit Union Cherry Blossom 10 Mile Road Race] , Sunday, April 4 2004]

Groharing graduated from Simpson College in 1993.cite news
url=http://www.simpson.edu/marketing/publications/simpsonmagazine/spring04.pdf
title=Touring the Years
page=35
publisher=Simpson Magazine
date=Spring 2004
accessdate=2008-01-05]

Groharing graduated from the University of Nebraska School of Law in 1996.cite news
url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06352/747086-84.stm
title=At Guantanamo, even 'easy' cases have lingered
publisher=Wall Street Journal
author=Jess Bravin
date=Monday, December 18, 2006
accessdate=2008-01-05] Groharing joined the United States Marine Corps shortly thereafter/

Groharing married MaryAnne Sapio, Miss California 1999, on December 8, 2002.Sapio is currently a Washington lobbyist. [http://www.missamerica.org/newsletter/winter2004/peptalk/general.htm Miss California 1999 MaryAnne Sapio] ] [http://www.wheatgr.com/maSapio.html Director of Federal Affairs:MaryAnne Sapio] ]

Guantanamo prosecution

Groharing is currently one of the officers appointed to prosecute. Guantanamo captives charged before the Guantanamo military commissions. [http://online.wsj.com/google_login.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB116640769061653103.html%3Fmod%3Dgooglenews_wsj At Guantanamo, even 'easy' cases have lingered] , "Wall Street Journal", December 18 2006 - [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06352/747086-84.stm - mirror] ] According to a "Wall Street Journal" article Groharing found that intelligence analysts were failing to cooperate with him by providing him with the information he needed to convict Omar Khadr.

The "Wall Street Journal" quoted Groharing about the Khadr's prosecution:quotation
"What's the alternative? To not hold him accountable? We are certainly not going to give him a pass for killing a U.S. service member and plotting to kill many more, The difference between us and al Qaeda is that when we had him on the battlefield, we didn't summarily execute him,"

November 8 2007 hearing

Colonel Peter Brownback, the Presiding Officer of Omar Khadr's military commission, was expected to make a ruling as to whether Khadr was an "illegal enemy combatant".cite news
url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-khadr9nov09,1,6141237.story?coll=la-headlines-nation&ctrack=2&cset=true
title=Terror case could turn on eyewitness: Defense lawyers say they just became aware of a potentially helpful onlooker in a Canadian suspect's alleged attack on U.S. troops
publisher=Los Angeles Times
author=Carol J. Williams
date=November 9, 2007
accessdate=2007-11-10] cite news
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=48095
title=Guantanamo Detainee Arraigned in Court Hearing
publisher=American Forces Press Service
date=November 8 2007
accessdate=2008-01-05] Instead Brownback postponed that ruling because he learned that the Prosecution had failed to inform Khadr's Defense team of the existence of a potentially exculpatory witness.

Lieutenant Commander William Kuebler said Groharing informed the Defense of the existence of the potentially exculpatory witness less than two days before the hearing.cite news
url=http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamolaw/story/300352.html
title=War court back in business
publisher=Miami Herald
author=Carol Rosenberg
date=Thursday November 8, 2007
accessdate=2008-01-05] cite news
url=http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=51245fb6-1e92-40dc-a96a-93b4b7be4ef4
title=Khadr lawyers claim proof he's not 'enemy': Mystery witness was at firefight
publisher=CanWest News Service
author=Sheldon Alberts
date=Friday, November 09, 2007
accessdate=2008-01-05]

According to Jennifer Daskal, an attorney at Human Rights Watchcite news
url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20071109.GITMO09/TPStory/TPInternational/America/
title=Secret Khadr witness disclosed: Doubt cast on whether teen was 'unlawful' combatant, defence says
publisher=Globe and Mail
author=Paul Koring
date=November 9, 2007
accessdate=2007-11-10] :quotation
“It is totally outrageous that the prosecution would try to push ahead with a hearing on whether or not Khadr was an unlawful enemy combatant, while all the time withholding from the defence potentially exculpatory information. Anyone who has ever gone to law school knows the fundamental legal and ethical rule: The prosecution cannot withhold exculpatory information from the defence.”

According to the "Los Angeles Times":

Groharing also protested the delay to Brownback because of the inconvenience of having brought witnesses to Guantanamo who would now not be called upon for their testimony.cite news
url=http://www.thestar.com/News/article/275296
title=Tent city sprouts quickly but justice moves slowly: Camp being erected for Khadr trial that some believe may never get underway
publisher=Toronto Star
author=Michelle Shephard
date=November 10 2007
accessdate=2008-01-05] cite news
url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21717125/
title=Detainee’s lawyers complain of obstructions: Attorneys for Canadian held at Guantanamo say access to evidence blocked
publisher=MSNBC
date=Friday November 9, 2007
accessdate=2008-01-05] According to the "Los Angeles Times"cite news
url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-khadr9nov09,1,4424636.story?coll=la-util-nationworld-world&ctrack=5&cset=true
title=Terror case could turn on eyewitness
publisher=Los Angeles Times
author=Carol J. Williams
date=November 9 2005
accessdate=2008-01-05] :

One of the pieces of evidence Groharing had protested not being allowed to present during the November 8 2007 hearing was a videotape.cite news
url=http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/War_Terror/2007/11/18/4666926-cp.html
title=Broadcast of tape of Khadr allegedly building explosives 'outrageous': lawyer
publisher=Canoe
author=Jered Stuffco
date=November 19, 2007
accessdate=2008-01-04] cite news
url=http://www.portlandtribune.com/us_world_news/story.php?story_id=N07541541
title=Buried evidence revealed in Guantanamo trial
publisher=Portland Tribune
author=Jane Sutton
date=Friday, January 4, 2008
accessdate=2008-01-05] cite news
url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-daskal/just-another-day-in-a-gua_b_71921.html
title=Just Another Day in a Guantanamo Courtroom
publisher=Huffington Post
author=Jennifer Daskal
date=November 9, 2007
accessdate=2008-01-05] The videotape was said to show Omar Khadr planting mines.The next broadcast of the CBS News show 60 Minutes showed extensive clips from this video.
Commander Jeffrey Gordon, a Department of Defense spokesman, claimed that the videotape had not been leaked by anyone within the Prosecution, or the Office of Military Commission.

December 2 2007 hearing

Following Omar Khadr's December 2 2007 hearing Groharing commented on the withholding of the identity of the Prosecution's witnessescite news
url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/02/terror/main3563043.shtml
title=Gitmo Trial Witness I.D.s Are Classified: Detainee's Lawyers Protest Judge's Order Not To Reveal Witness Identities To Anyone
publisher=CBS News
author=
date=December 2 2007
accessdate=2008-01-02] :quotation
“It is conceivable, if not likely, that al Qaeda members or sympathizers could attempt to target witnesses.”

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*cite news
url=http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/khadr-appeal-ca-dc-10-9-07.pdf
title=OMAR AHMED KHADR, v. UNITED STATES and UNITED STATES COURT OF MILITARY COMMISSION REVIEW
publisher=Scotusblog
author=William Kuebler
date=October 9 2007
accessdate=2008-01-05