Judge David Bryan Sentelle (born February 12, 1943 in Canton, North Carolina) is the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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Early life and education
Sentelle was born in Canton, NC, and attended college and law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1965 and his law degree in 1968.
Professional career
Sentelle practiced law until becoming an assistant U.S. Attorney in Charlotte, North Carolina in January 1970. From 1974 to 1977, Sentelle was the North Carolina State District Judge. He then practiced law privately from 1977 until 1985, when he was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina by President Ronald Reagan in 1985.
Federal judicial service
On February 2, 1987, Reagan nominated Sentelle to a position on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to replace Antonin Scalia. Sentelle was confirmed by the United States Senate in an 87-0 vote on September 9, 1987.
On the D.C. Circuit, Sentelle voted to overturn the convictions of Oliver North and John Poindexter, along with Judge Laurence Silberman. He served on the Special Division of the Court which appointed Kenneth Starr under the renewed Independent Counsel statute, replacing Robert B. Fiske, who had been appointed by Attorney General Janet Reno special prosecutor to investigate the allegations against President Bill Clinton with respect to the Whitewater affair.
In 2007, in Boumediene v. Bush, 375 U.S. App. D.C. 48, Judge Sentelle concurred with Judge Arthur Raymond Randolph, relying on Johnson v. Eisentrager, to uphold the Military Commissions Act of 2006's suspension of habeas corpus for enemy combatants as constitutional. Judge Judith Ann Wilson Rogers dissented.
Hufaiza Parhat v. Gates
On Monday June 23, 2008 it was announced that a three judge panel of the D.C. Circuit, made up of David B. Sentelle, Merrick B. Garland and Thomas B. Griffith, overturned the determination of Hufaiza Parhat's Combatant Status Review Tribunal on Friday June 20, 2008.[1] Parhat's was the first case to be ruled on since the Supreme Court's ruling in Boumediene v. Bush. However, the ruling was made under a section of the Detainee Treatment Act. The court held that even under the government's own interpretation of the statute, it has failed to offer sufficiently reliable evidence for its determination that Parhat's is an enemy combatant.
Publications
- Sentelle, David B. (2002). Judge Dave and the Rainbow People. Green Bag Press, Washington D.C. ISBN 0-9677568-3-9
References
- ^ William Glaberson (2008-06-24). "Court Voids Finding on Guantánamo Detainee". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/washington/24combatant.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin. Retrieved 2008-06-24.
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