Clayton Trivett

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Clayton Trivett
Occupation lawyer
Known for Guantanamo prosecutor

Clayton Trivett is a lawyer with the US military.[1][2] As of 2022 he is a Commander in the United States Navy Reserve.[3]

Carol Rosenberg reports Trivett has served as a prosecutor, for the Guantanamo military commissions since 2008.[3] However, since 2022, he has been assigned greater responsibility. Rosenberg reports Trivett will be taking a new role in a new attempt to agree to plea bargains with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and the four other men charged with him. In these negotiations prosecutors have been authorized to take the death penalty off the table.

References

  1. Carol Rosenberg. Prosecutors Struggle to Resume Guantánamo Trials, The New York Times, 2020-07-27, p. A13. Retrieved on 2022-03-21. “A prosecutor, Clayton G. Trivett, notified defense lawyers last week of the planning, which he said would consolidate court hearings and personnel to prevent “posing unnecessary risk to the resident base population of 6,000 people.””
  2. Zack Budryk. Guantanamo Bay prisoners to be offered coronavirus vaccines, The Hill, 2021-01-28. Retrieved on 2022-03-21. “Trivett said the base could begin providing the shots to prisoners who consented as early as next Monday. The prison complex houses 40 detainees.”
  3. 3.0 3.1 Carol Rosenberg. The 9/11 Trial: Why Are Plea Bargain Talks Underway?, The New York Times, 2022-03-20, p. A13. Retrieved on 2022-03-21. “Now a trial prosecutor who has been on the case since the George W. Bush administration, Clayton G. Trivett Jr., is in talks with defense lawyers about trading guilty pleas for at most life in prison without parole.”

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