Tag Archives: Chucky Taylor

Decisions: 11th Circuit Further Repudiates the ‘Torture Memos’ in Chucky Taylor Case

15th
Jul. × ’10
By Johnny

There’s a lot to dig into in this decision, but an interesting item crops up on page 74 concerning the controversial memos prepared by the Office of Legal Counsel during the (second) Bush Administration. From the 11th Circuit: If you’ll recall, there was a lot of shock and indignation surrounding the definition of torture put [...]

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Decisions: 11th Circuit Upholds Chucky Taylor’s Torture Conviction, Sentence

15th
Jul. × ’10
By Johnny

More on this later, but here’s the gist from page 87 of the decision: Thank to Piper for pointing this out.

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Court date: 11th Circuit hears Chucky Taylor’s appeal

14th
May. × ’10
By Johnny

I sat in on oral arguments before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Miami the other morning. For anyone interested in extraterritorial justice and human rights law, this was a bit like a football fan nabbing seats to the first round of the playoffs. Absent the beer and exorbitant ticket price. I’ll be brief since [...]

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Broken news: ICE’s latest HRVWCU arrest

6th
May. × ’10
By Johnny

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Unit made another significant arrest yesterday . As the Miami Herald details, Gilberto Jordan, a naturalized U.S. Citizen, was placed under arrest for his role in a massacre at the village of Dos Erres by a Guatemalan military unit in 1982. Similar to the Boley [...]

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Broken news: Court to Hear Oral Arguments in the Chucky Taylor Appeal

19th
Mar. × ’10
By Johnny

Mark your calendars. On May 11th, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in the Chucky Taylor criminal case.

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Court date: Chucky Taylor’s torture bill comes due

5th
Feb. × ’10
By Johnny

22.4 million dollars. That is the figure a Miami judge put on the damages awarded to five Liberians who filed suit in federal court against Charles Taylor Jr. aka Chucky, the former commander of his father’s Anti-Terrorist Unit. The suit alleged abuses by Taylor and his forces during his father’s term as Liberia’s president. Piper [...]

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Court date: A civil action for Chucky Taylor

14th
Dec. × ’09
By Johnny

In Miami today. The agenda: Chucky Taylor‘s civil trial. Some background: Chucky Taylor is the American son of former Liberian president Charles Taylor. He is also the first person convicted under a federal statute criminalizing the use of torture outside of the United States. He is serving a 97-year sentence, while appealing his case before the 11th [...]

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Exhibits: The Scene of the Crime

22nd
Sep. × ’09
By Johnny

The government introduced an interesting exhibit in a pretrial motion in the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui: a photograph of the scene of the alleged crime. Here it is, in all of it’s scanned, black-and-white Xeroxed glory: The exhibit was tacked on to a motion opposing a Rule 15 deposition of a gentleman named Abdul [...]

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