Should Terrorists Face Courts Martial?: A Proposal for a Pragmatic Military Solution

Charlotte Lawyers Chapter

Speaker:

• V. Stuart Couch, Attorney at Poyner Spruill LLP and Former U.S. Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals Judge and Senior Prosecutor, U.S. Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions
  

Speaker:

• V. Stuart Couch, Attorney at Poyner Spruill LLP and Former U.S. Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals Judge and Senior Prosecutor, U.S. Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions

Mr. Couch is a former senior appellate military judge and military prosecutor who, in 2007, was featured in a Wall Street Journal article "The Conscience of the Colonel" describing his refusal to prosecute a detained terrorist held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Mr. Couch also served as liaison to the Department of Justice in support of the U.S. Supreme Court litigation Hamdan v. Rumsfeld - a case regarding separation of powers and Presidential wartime authority.

NO COST for the event
Bring your own "brown bag" lunch; soft drinks provided.

RSVP REQUIRED FOR SECURITY CLEARANCE (acceptances only) by March 23rd to Peggy Balsley at [email protected]