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Charles Swift was born on 1961 in Franklin, NC, is an American attorney and Navy officer. Discover Charles Swift's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

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1961

Charles D. Swift (born 1961) is an American attorney and former career Navy officer, who retired in 2007 as a Lieutenant Commander in the Judge Advocate General's Corps.

He is most noted for having served as defense counsel for Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a detainee from Yemen who was the first to be charged at Guantanamo Bay; Swift took his case to the US Supreme Court.

Born in 1961, Charles Swift is a native of Franklin, North Carolina.

He went to local schools and gained an appointment and admission to the U.S. Naval Academy.

1984

Following his graduation in 1984, Swift served in a variety of surface warfare billets as described in the below table.

1991

In 1991, he left active service to attend Seattle University School of Law, as authorized by the Navy, where he graduated cum laude. Resuming active service in 1994, he joined the Navy's Judge Advocate General's Corps.

A comprehensive biography can be found here (website for the Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy, different from LCDR Swift's commissioning source).

Summary of LCDR Swift's assignments:

1994

After several years, he was approved to attend law school and, after graduation, in 1994 became a member of the Navy's legal corps.

2002

Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden, was captured during the US invasion of Afghanistan, and held from 2002 at Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

2003

In 2003, he was assigned to the Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions, serving into early 2007.

There he was assigned as defense counsel to Salim Ahmed Hamdan.

Because of his challenges, Swift was helping make the law on detainee treatment in the war on terror.

2004

He was charged in July 2004 with conspiracy to commit terrorism.

As Hamdan's legal counsel, Swift was assisted in the defense by the Seattle law firm of Perkins Coie and Neal Katyal, a Georgetown University Law Professor.

They appealed Hamdan's writ of habeas corpus petition to the US Supreme Court.

In Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557, 126 S.Ct.

2749 (2006), the Court ruled that the military commission to try Hamdan was illegal and violated the Geneva Conventions as well as the United States Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).

It held that Congress needed to authorize a process for detainee tribunals.

The court ruled that the military commissions as established by the Dept. of Defense were flawed and illegal according to the US Uniform Code of Military Justice and Geneva Convention.

2005

In 2005 and June 2006, the National Law Journal recognized Swift as one of the top lawyers nationally because of his work on behalf of justice for the detainees.

2006

Swift used the civil courts to challenge the constitutionality of the military tribunals and the legal treatment of detainees in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006), a case that went to the US Supreme Court and was decided in his client's favor.

As a result, Congress passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 to authorize a form of military tribunals and incorporate the Court's concerns about reconciliation with the US Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Geneva Conventions.

During his Navy career, Swift served in a variety of assignments, including at sea.

In June 2006, Swift learned he had been "passed over" by the Navy (a second time) for promotion; as a result, under the military's "up or out" system, he had to retire in the spring of 2007.

He learned of being passed over two weeks after the Supreme Court decided in Hamdan's favor, and intended to continue defending Hamdan as a civilian.

The US Navy lawyer successfully represented the plaintiff Guantanamo detainee in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006) and took his case to the US Supreme Court.

As a result, the administration requested, and Congress passed, the Military Commissions Act of 2006, to authorize a form of military tribunals to try the detainee cases.

The president signed the law October 17, 2006.

2007

From 2007 through 2008, Swift taught at Emory Law School as a Visiting Associate Professor and Acting Director of its newly established International Humanitarian Law Clinic.

Beginning in 2007, Hamdan was charged under the new law and in 2008 tried by a military jury of the Military Commissions.

It acquitted him of conspiracy for terrorism but convicted him of assisting efforts.

It sentenced him to five and a half years, crediting him for the time he had already been detained.

2008

Hamdan was convicted of one of his charges in 2008 but credited for time detained.

He was returned to Yemen in 2008.

Swift worked to appeal his conviction.

In November 2008, the US transferred Hamdan to Yemen, where he served the last month of his sentence.

After release, he rejoined his family in Sana.

2012

In October 2012, Hamdan was acquitted of all charges in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

2014

In 2014, Swift joined Constitutional Law Center for Muslims in America as its Director.