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Article: Gitmo client leads Tallahassee lawyer to Afghanistan: 'is the Military Commissions Act an adequate substitute for habeas corpus?'.
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- Florida Bar News
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- May 15, 2008
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After striking a deal to settle a nationwide class-action lawsuit against Walgreens, Tallahassee civil rights attorney Kent Spriggs had free time for pro bono work.
Admittedly not the shy type who has built a career representing what he calls "the wretched of the Earth," he called the Center for Constitutional Rights, the group that brought the first Guantanamo detainee case more than five years ago.
"I want a Gitmo client," Spriggs told them.
That call set in motion a trip this year to Afghanistan, to meet his 28-year-old client, Omar, behind bars.
"To the extent that the United States has ever been a beacon on the hill, it's that we ...