Dwight H. Sullivan is an American military officer and lawyer. From 2005 to 2007, he served as the
Chief Defense Counsel for the
Office of Military Commissions. In 2007, he became a civilian lawyer working for the Air Force doing death penalty defense appellate work. Sullivan is a
colonel in the
United States Marine Corps Reserve. He is a graduate of the
University of Maryland and the
University of Virginia School of Law
The University of Virginia School of Law (Virginia Law or UVA Law) is the law school of the University of Virginia, a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson as part of his "academical v ...
. Prior to his role in defending the Guantanamo Bay detainees he worked with the
Maryland office of the
American Civil Liberties Union.
Work on CAAFlog
Sullivan is the founder of CAAFlog, a blog devoted to current topics in U.S. military law and the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). CAAFlog derives the first part of its name from the acronym for the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF), an intermediate appellate court with jurisdiction over certain courts-martial in accordance with Article 67 of the UCMJ (Title 10, United States Code, Section 867). CAAFlog currently features over a dozen contributors with experience in the field of U.S. military law.
In 2008, Sullivan spotted an error in the 2008 U.S. Supreme Court decision in ''
Kennedy v. Louisiana.'' The court wrote that no U.S. federal jurisdiction authorized the death penalty for child rape, but Sullivan pointed out that this was not true because Congress had specifically authorized the death penalty for such offenses as part of the 2006 amendments to the UCMJ. The Supreme Court requested briefs on the issue and subsequently modified its opinion to address the error, but the court denied a rehearing and declined to alter its decision.
References
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Duke Law Students, Professor Assist Guantanamo Defense Team: Law students will research and write briefs and help craft strategy for the military lawyers defending Guantanamo Bay detainees ''
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
'', November 11, 2005.
# Caryn Tamber, Patriot Acts, Daily Record, July 22, 2007.
# Caryn Tamber, Patriot Acts, Daily Record, July 22, 2007.
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Legal Row Erupts Over New Abu Ghraib Photos ''
antiwar.com'', July 26, 2005.
Article 67, UCMJ
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'Blawgs' directory, Am. Bar Ass'n ''Journal''
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Blogger Points Out Substantial Error in Supreme Court Decision, Am. Bar Ass'n ''Journal'' July 2, 2008.
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June 25, 2008.
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Kennedy v. Louisiana statement re denial of rehearing, 129 S.Ct. 1 (2008) October 1, 2008.
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External links
CAAFlog
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American lawyers
United States Marine Corps reservists
United States Marine Corps colonels
United States Air Force civilians
American Civil Liberties Union people
American military lawyers