James L. Pohl

James L. Pohl is an American military judge who was known by its position on the processes at Guantanamo.

Life

1974 Pohl received a Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Los Angeles four years later a Juris Doctor from Pepperdine University School. 1981-1982 James Pohl was defender of the U.S. Army at Fort Knox. 1982 to 1984 he was Senior Trial Counsel there. He then spent a year in Korea working for the U.S. Army. 1985-1988 Pohl was then active in Texas. In 1988 he received a Master of Laws in Military Law of The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School. In 1988, Pohl as the person responsible for civil law to Bad Kreuznach. After that he was stationed in Schweinfurt as a responsible officer at the local law center. From 1990, he was back at work in Virginia for the U.S. Army Legal Services Agency in the United States. In 1994, James Pohl legal counsel for the Department of the Army Headquarters ( HQDA ). 1995-1996 studied at the Command and General Staff Pohl College in Kansas. He became a member of the Regional Defence Council of the U.S. Army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1996. As Judge Advocate Pohl worked in the years 1998 to 2000. 2000 to 2002 he was then a military judge on the 2nd Judicial District of the U.S. Army at Fort Stewart, Georgia. Two years later he became the presiding judge of the 5th Judicial District of the U.S. Army in Heidelberg.

In the years 2004 and 2005, he publicly declared that the events at Abu Ghraib prison were criminal. He was also a judge at the trials for the Abu Ghraib torture scandal. He negotiated the complaints against Charles Graner and Lynndie England. On 15 December 2008, James Pohl successor of Ralph Kohlmann as Presiding Judge of the Military Commission of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. In January 2009 James Pohl disagreed with the arrangement of the new President Barack Obama, the proceedings against prisoners in Guantanamo suspended for 120 days. The case against Abd al- Rahim al - Nashiri, the mastermind of the attack on the USS Cole should be, Pohl wants to continue as planned.

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