Legal Opinion
Esmail v. Obama
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided April 8, 2011No. 10-5282PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed PER CURIAM.
Concurring opinion filed by Senior Circuit Judge SILBERMAN.
2Per curiam
Appellant, Yasein Khasem Mohammad Esmail, a detainee at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was captured by Northern Alliance forces in December 2001 and transferred to American custody in January of the following year. In 2004, he filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus with the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The district court denied the petition, and Es-mail now appeals. Because we agree with the district court’s ultimate determination that Esmail was…
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