Darrel Vandeveld

Darrel Vandeveld (Birth year and age|1961)is an American lawyer and an officer in the United States Army Reserve.cite news
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Vandeveld is notable for asking to resign from his appointment as a Prosecutor before a Guantanamo military commission. Vandeveld is a resident of Millcreek Township, Pennsylvania.

According to the "New York Times", officials confirmed on September 24 2008 that Lieutenant Colonel Vandeveld resigned over an ethical issue.Vandeveld is the seventh Prosecutor to resign from serving as a Guantanamo prosecutor.

Vandeveld was serving as a Prosecutor in the case of Mohammed Jawad, a Pakistani youth who was charged with participating in a grenade attack in a bazaar in Afghanistan where two American GIs and their interpreter were injured. Colonel Stephen Henley had been growing impatient with the Prosecution, and had given them a deadline to share evidence they had withheld from Major David J. R. Frakt which he suspected could prove exculpatory.

The "BBC" reports that the withheld evidence includes the confessions of two men who said they were the ones who actually made the attack.

Vandeveld's resignation was filed within the Military Commission system. The "New York Times" reported he had not commented publicly about his resignation.
Carol Rosenberg, of the "Miami Herald", quoted from Vandeveld's four page resignation memo::

Frakt claimed that Vandeveld had recommended a plea bargain and an early release for Jawad, who was a youth when the event took place, and who had been subjected to coercive enhanced interrogation techniques, including prolonged sleep deprivation in Guantanamo's frequent flyer program.

Frakt commented that Vandeveld: “could no longer continue to serve ethically as a prosecutor.”

Chief Prosecutor Colonel Lawrence Morris asserted: :

According to Josh Meyers, writing in the "Los Angeles Times", Frakt planned to call Vandeveld as a witness, on September 25 2008 or September 26 2008. Vandeveld was willing to testify. But his superiors planned to block his testimony. According to Meyers, Frakt planned to ask Henley, the Presiding Officer, to compel Vandeveld's testimony.

ee also

*Robert Preston
*John Carr
*Carrie Wolf
*Fred Borch
*Stuart Couch
*Morris Davis

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