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JEAN-PIERRE v. U.S. ATTY. GEN.

No. 06-13359.

500 F.3d 1315 (2007)

Jean Herold JEAN-PIERRE, a.k.a. Jean Harold Pierre, a.k.a. Martina Jean Pierre, a.k.a. Jean Pierre Jeanherold, Petitioner, v. U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 19, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rebecca Sharpless, FIU College of Law, Clinical Programs, Miami, FL, for Petitioner.

Anthony P. Nicastro, David V. Bernal, Margaret K. Taylor, Ernesto H. Molina, Jr., U.S. Dept. of Justice, OIL, Civ. Div., Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before ANDERSON, MARCUS and COX, Circuit Judges.

MARCUS, Circuit Judge:

More than fifty years ago, Justice Frankfurter wrote that, when it comes to torture, "there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men." Watts v. Indiana, 338 U.S. 49, 52, 69 S.Ct. 1347, 93 L.Ed. 1801 (1949). Today, we decide not whether our humanity should inform our understanding of torture, but whether, in the context of this claim, Congress has eliminated...

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