Susan Baker Manning
Susan Baker Manning is an American lawyer.
Manning is notable for volunteering to serve as a pro bono attorney for some of the captives held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. Manning played a leading role in a challenge focussed around the captives' detention based on an avenue of appeal that the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 (DTA) opened. The DTA closed the opportunity for captives who had not yet had writs of habeas corpus filed on their behalf. But the DTA allowed captives to challenge the determinations of their Combatant Status Review Tribunals, that they were properly classified as "enemy combatants". The DTA allowed captives to challenge the enemy combatant determination if the Tribunal failed to follow the rules laid out in their mandate.
One aspect of that challenge was a request that the court force the DoD to relase more information on the evidence used to justify the captive's detention. Manning said:
Her Guantanamo habeas corpus cases include:
- Qassim v. Bush
- Kiyemba v. Bush
- Mamet v. Bush
- Parhat v. Gates