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PUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALSFOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 06-7427
 ALI SALEH KAHLAH AL-MARRI,Petitioner - Appellant,andMARK A. BERMAN, as next friend,Petitioner,versusCOMMANDER S. L. WRIGHT, USN Commander,Consolidated Naval Brig.,Respondent - Appellee.--------------------SPECIALISTS IN THE LAW OF WAR; PROFESSORS OFEVIDENCE AND PROCEDURE; UNITED STATES CRIMINALSCHOLARS AND HISTORIANS; FORMER SENIOR JUSTICEDEPARTMENT OFFICIALS; CENTER FOR NATIONALSECURITY STUDIES; AMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE; ASIAN-AMERICANJUSTICE CENTER; NATIONAL IMMIGRANT JUSTICECENTER; HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST; HUMAN RIGHTSWATCH; PROFESSORS OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW ANDFEDERAL JURISDICTION; HATE FREE ZONE; MUSLIM ADVOCATES; WORLD ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTSUSA, Amici Supporting Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District ofSouth Carolina, at Charleston. Henry F. Floyd, District Judge.
 
2(2:04-cv-002257-HFF) Argued: February 1, 2007 Decided: June 11, 2007Before MOTZ and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and Henry E. HUDSON,United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia,sitting by designation.Reversed and remanded by published opinion. Judge Motz wrote theopinion, in which Judge Gregory joined. Judge Hudson wrote adissenting opinion.
ARGUED:
Jonathan L. Hafetz, BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE, New YorkUniversity School of Law, New York, New York, for Appellant.David B. Salmons, Assistant to the Solicitor General, UNITED STATESDEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Office of the Solicitor General, Washington,D.C., for Appellee.
ON BRIEF:
Andrew J. Savage, III, SAVAGE &SAVAGE, P.A., Charleston, South Carolina; Lawrence S. Lustberg,Mark A. Berman, GIBBONS, DEL DEO, DOLAN, GRIFFINGER & VECCHIONE,P.C., Newark, New Jersey, for Appellant. Paul D. Clement,Solicitor General, Reginald I. Lloyd, United States Attorney,District of South Carolina, Gregory G. Garre, Deputy SolicitorGeneral, Kevin F. McDonald, Assistant United States Attorney,Claire J. Evans, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, CriminalDivision, Appellate Section, Washington, D.C., for Appellee. JennyS. Martinez, Stanford, California; Allison Marston Danner,Nashville, Tennessee; Valerie M. Wagner, Daniel B. Epstein,DECHERT, L.L.P., Palo Alto, California, for Specialists in the Lawof War, Amicus Supporting Appellant. Jonathan M. Freiman, NATIONALLITIGATION PROJECT of the Allard K. Lowenstein International HumanRights Clinic, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, forProfessors of Evidence and Procedure, Amicus Supporting Appellant.Hope R. Metcalf, WIGGIN AND DANA, L.L.P., New Haven, Connecticut,for United States Criminal Scholars and Historians, AmicusSupporting Appellant. James C. Schroeder, Gary A. Isaac, HeatherM. Lewis, MAYER, BROWN, ROWE & MAW, L.L.P., Chicago, Illinois, forFormer Senior Justice Department Officials, Amicus Supporting Appellant. Kate Martin, Joseph Onek, CENTER FOR NATIONAL SECURITYSTUDIES, Washington, D.C., Paul Smith, Joshua A. Block, JENNER &BLOCK, L.L.P., New York, New York, for Center for National SecurityStudies, Amicus Supporting Appellant; Lema Bashir, AMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE, Washington, D.C., for American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Amicus Supporting Appellant; Aimee
 
3J. Baldillo, ASIAN AMERICAN JUSTICE CENTER, Washington, D.C., for Asian-American Justice Center, Amicus Supporting Appellant; MaryMeg McCarthy, Tara Magner, NATIONAL IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CENTER,Chicago, Illinois, for National Immigrant Justice Center, AmicusSupporting Appellant. Gabor Rona, Hina Shamsi, HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST,New York, New York; Jennifer Daskal, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH,Washington, D.C.; Donald Francis Donovan, Catherine M. Amirfar,Tali Farimah Farhadian, DEBEVOISE & PLIMPTON, L.L.P., New York, NewYork, for Human Rights First and Human Rights Watch, AmiciSupporting Appellant. Gerald L. Neuman, Cambridge, Massachusetts;Harold Hongju Koh, New Haven, Connecticut; Sarah H. Cleveland,Cambridge, Massachusetts; Margaret L. Sanner, REED SMITH, L.L.P.,Richmond, Virginia, for Professors of Constitutional Law andFederal Jurisdiction, Amicus Supporting Appellant. Timothy J.Finn, Julia E. McEvoy, Katherine E. Stern, JONES DAY, Washington,D.C., for National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, AmicusSupporting Appellant. Shankar Narayan, HATE FREE ZONE, Seattle,Washington, for Hate Free Zone, Amicus Supporting Appellant;Farhana Khera, MUSLIM ADVOCATES, Kensington, Maryland, for Muslim Advocates, Amicus Supporting Appellant. Morton Sklar, ExecutiveDirector, Joseph Husty, Legal Intern, WORLD ORGANIZATION FOR HUMANRIGHTS USA, Washington, D.C., with the assistance of Law StudentContributors: Melissa Keyes (U. of CA at Hastings Law School),Charles Wait, Aaron Clark-Rizzio, Kennon Scott, Binish Hasan, MariaTennyson, Olivia Maginley and Meredith Angelson (New York Univ. LawSch.), Simon Moshenberg, Jesse Townsend, Stephanie Hays, Sameer Ahmed and Nicholas Pederson (Yale Law School), Matt Sadler (B.C.Law School), for World Organization for Human Rights USA, AmicusSupporting Appellant. David H. Remes, Enrique Armijo, John F.Coyle, COVINGTON & BURLING, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for David M.Brahms, Brigadier General, Donald J. Guter, Rear Admiral, Merrill A. McPeak, Retired General, Amici Supporting Appellant.
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