User:Geo Swan/Felice Viti
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Felice Viti | |
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| Nationality | USA |
| Occupation | lawyer |
| Known for | Convicted the kidnapper of Elizabeth Smart |
Felice Viti is an American lawyer.[1] In 2010, while he was a Federal Prosecutor in Utah he secured a conviction against Brian David Mitchell, who had kidnapped 14 year old Elizabeth Smart. Viti and his colleagues were promoted, and rewarded, after their success in this case.[2][3]
Viti has served as an FBI special agent.[3] The Department of Justice sent him to Bosnia and Iraq.[4] Viti called his six month posting to Bosnia, in 2004, a "Peace Corps for lawyers".
In July, 2015, when Viti joined the team prosecuting Abd al Hadi al Iraqi, Carol Rosenberg, of the Miami Herald found his appointment to a team in the Military Commission system that she noted his former prosecution of Mitchell, Elizabeth Smart's kidnapper.[1]
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Carol Rosenberg (2015-07-22). "War crimes hearing opens at Guantánamo with Elizabeth Smart case prosecutor, stalls over conflict question". Miami Herald. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
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Dennis Romboy (2011-12-09). "Prosecution team in Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case receive DOJ award". Washington DC: Deseret News. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
The federal prosecution team in the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case, including Assistant U.S. Attorney Felice Viti, was honored by the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday.
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"Changes Made in Leadership Positions at U.S. Attorney's Office". FBI. 2011-01-06. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
Viti, who previously worked as a local prosecutor in New York and as a special agent with the FBI, has been in the U.S. Attorney's Office for more than 15 years. He served two overseas details for the Department of Justice in Bosnia and Iraq and also worked with DOJ's National Security Division in Washington, D.C.
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Angie Welling (2004-10-18). "Attorneys enhancing justice abroad: Utahns, others go far in U.S. program". Deseret News. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
Call it, as Felice Viti does, a "Peace Corps for lawyers." To the Utah prosecutor, the U.S. Department of Justice program that sent him to Bosnia for six months is much like the federal agency that directs scores of humanitarian volunteers to developing countries every year.
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