Jeffrey Groharing

Jeffrey Groharing is a lawyer and an officer in the United States Marine Corps.

Groharing graduated from Simpson College in 1993. Groharing graduated from the University of Nebraska School of Law in 1996. Groharing joined the United States Marine Corps shortly thereafter.

Groharing married MaryAnne Sapio, Miss California 1999, on December 8, 2002. Sapio is currently a Washington lobbyist.

Guantanamo prosecution
Groharing is currently one of the officers appointed to prosecute. Guantanamo captives charged before the Guantanamo military commissions. According to a Wall Street Journal article Groharing found that intelligence analysts were failing to cooperate with him by providing him with the information he needed to convict Omar Khadr.

The Wall Street Journal quoted Groharing about the Khadr's prosecution:

November 8, 2007 hearing


Colonel Peter Brownback, the Presiding Officer of Omar Khadr's military commission, was expected to make a ruling as to whether Khadr was an "illegal enemy combatant". Instead Brownback postponed that ruling because he learned that the Prosecution had failed to inform Khadr's Defense team of the existence of a potentially exculpatory witness. Lieutenant Commander William Kuebler said Groharing informed the Defense of the existence of the potentially exculpatory witness less than two days before the hearing.

According to Jennifer Daskal, an attorney at Human Rights Watch:

According to the Los Angeles Times:

Groharing also protested the delay to Brownback because of the inconvenience of having brought witnesses to Guantanamo who would now not be called upon for their testimony. According to the Los Angeles Times:

One of the pieces of evidence Groharing had protested not being allowed to present during the November 8, 2007 hearing was a videotape. The videotape was said to show Omar Khadr planting mines. The next broadcast of the CBS News show 60 Minutes showed extensive clips from this video. Commander Jeffrey Gordon, a Department of Defense spokesman, claimed that the videotape had not been leaked by anyone within the Prosecution, or the Office of Military Commission.

December 2, 2007 hearing
Following Omar Khadr's December 2, 2007 hearing Groharing commented on the withholding of the identity of the Prosecution's witnesses: