Guantanamo Close Up: An Interview with Dicky Grigg, Esq.

By John Girardi, Esq.

October 2007

NCCLP Board member John Girardi, Esq., interviewed the well-respected attorney Dicky Grigg, Esq., from Austin, Texas, concerning Grigg’s representation of detainees at the United States’ facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Grigg provides a gripping description of the restraints facing any counsel attempting to represent a defendant in the custody of the United States who has been labeled an “enemy combatant” or who is “awaiting such a determination.” He further details through his experience the United States government’s abandonment of basic constitutional standards of due process and its abrogation of standards under the Geneva Conventions.