One of the main concerns of the American people is not that the US Government undertook the detention of unlawful combatants in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but that we have been so slow to adjudicate their cases in some type of fair system of justice that provides due process.  The Obama Administration is discovering that just shutting it down is not so easy.  Guantanamo Case Files in Disarray.  What do you do with the detainees?  Where do they go?  How will we provide them with fair trials to determine their guilt or innocence?  It seems that the full information for each detainee is spread throughout the Executive Branch in various agencies who have refused to fully share it.  What little information we do have about them is that there are some very dangerous people there.  There may, however, be some not so dangerous people who were merely in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Some sort of fair judicial process should be used to make those determinations and either punish (by appropriate terms of confinement) or release these people.

Puckett & Faraj PC

Neal Puckett and Haytham Faraj are criminal defense and general litigation attorneys and partners in the The Law Firm of Puckett and Faraj, PC.  They have decades of trial experience defending those accused of criminal charges in federal and military courts-martial. Mr. Puckett and Mr. Faraj also represent clients in a variety of administrative hearings including Boards of Inquiry, Administrative Separation hearings, immigration removal hearings, Boards of Corrections of Military and Naval Records, Military Discharge Review Boards and National Security Clearance hearings, among others. Neal Puckett and Haytham Faraj have also represented those who have been harmed or injured by the negligence, recklessness, or deliberate acts or failures of others.

We, at the law firm of Puckett and Faraj, PC, consistently get positive feed back from our clients about the level of personal service and attention that we provide.  We take a personal interest in every case.  We discuss the cases.  We contemplate the client’s options and what is in her or his best interest because we want to ensure that every client receives the best legal service possible.  That level of attention and service is uncommon in the legal profession.  Unfortunately few people realize that and are often drawn only by commercials and glitzy advertisements to lawyers and law firms that are vocal on TV and other media but provide no little or no service to the client.  One such firm is the James Sokolove firm.  It appears that Mr. Sokolove has not tried a case in over three decades; yet he draws tens of thousands of clients a year.  It leaves one to wonder whether clients realize that they are trusting their lives and paying their hard earned money to someone who does not practice law when they call his number after they get it from one of his ubiquitous commercials.

Puckett & Faraj PC

Attorneys Neal Puckett and Haytham Faraj specialize in criminal defense and trial work.  They are partners in the the premier litigation law firm of Puckett and Faraj, PC.  They have decades of trial experience defending those accused of criminal charges in federal and military courts-martial. Mr. Puckett and Mr. Faraj also represent clients in a variety of administrative hearings including Boards of Inquiry, Administrative Separation hearings, immigration removal hearings, Boards of Corrections of Military and Naval Records, Military Discharge Review Boards and National Security Clearance hearings, among others. Neal Puckett and Haytham Faraj have also represented those who have been harmed or injured by the negligence, recklessness, or deliberate acts or failures of others.

The partners take pride in providing client focused representation that seeks to ensure client accessibility to the attorneys and best in class service.  Puckett and Faraj, PC seeks maintain its position in providing the gold standard in legal representation.  The firm has offices in Alexandria, Virginia and San Diego, California.  The partners are licensed to practice in Illinois, Virginia, the Eastern District of Michigan and in all states and all over the world, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Kuwait representing military clients.

Puckett and Faraj, PC. has been retained by Mr. Issam Hamama of El Cajon, California to defend him against charges brought by the U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Michigan.  Mr. Hamama, a former Iraqi citizen, served with the U.S. forces in Iraq over the last few years as a translator and cultural advisor to U.S. forces engaged in operations in Iraq.  Mr. Hamama’s charges stem from his efforts in the nineties as as an activist working to relieve the suffering of Iraqi children and civilians harmed by the U.N. sanctions against Iraq following operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm.  The case of Mr. Hamama is a companion case to several other similar cases in which some defendants pled guilty and at least one defendant was acquitted.

Puckett & Faraj PC

Neal Puckett and Haytham Faraj are criminal defense and general litigation attorneys and partners in the The Law Firm of Puckett and Faraj, PC.  They have decades of trial experience defending those accused of criminal charges in federal and military courts-martial.  Mr. Puckett and Mr. Faraj also represent clients in a variety of administrative hearings including Boards of Inquiry, Administrative Separation hearings, immigration removal hearings, Boards of Corrections of Military and Naval Records, Military Discharge Review Boards and National Security Clearance hearings, among others.  Neal Puckett and Haytham Faraj have also represented those who have been harmed or injured by the negligence, recklessness, or deliberate acts or failures of others.