Prescott Prince | |
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 Navy Capt. Prescott Prince, standby defense counsel for alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, addresses media in McCalla Hangar following a hearing here, July 10, 2008 | |
| Born | 1952 (age 71–72) |
| Service/ | United States Navy Reserve |
| Rank | Captain |
Prescott Prince (born November 15, 1954) is an American lawyer and officer in the United States Navy Reserve. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Prince is notable for being assigned to represent Guantanamo captive Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
| 1976 | B.A. | Davidson College |
| 1980 | M.A. | Radford University |
| 1983 | J.D. | Washington and Lee University School of Law |
Member of Kappa Alpha Order.
Prince shifted from the regular Navy to the reserves in 1987 and graduated from Washington and Lee University School of Law, [2] and had a civilian law practice in Richmond, Virginia until his recall to active duty in June 2007. [2] For the remainder of 2007 Prince served as a "rule of law officer" in Iraq.
In 2008 Prince was assigned Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as a client. [6]
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Prince, a Southern lawyer who only a year ago was running a small civilian defense practice, expects the case to go on for years and culminate in a landmark Supreme Court decision. To him, it's not only the welfare of his infamous client that matters, but also protecting the integrity of the Constitution, which he says the Bush administration has trampled by coercing information out of Mohammed and subjecting him to a system of military justice that is stacked against him.
Prince says he doesn't have the resources normally available in a capital case, so private legal groups are stepping in to help by recruiting civilian lawyers to aid the defense.
At least for now, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has accepted Navy Capt. Prescott Prince as his defense attorney, Prince said by telephone after returning from the remote U.S. naval base in Cuba where the United States holds foreign terrorism suspects.