Before leaving the United States to join the group Islamic State involved in the planning of the Somali American youth who was not a troublemaker - US District Court Judge Michael Davis saw before the court.
His long, protracted silence could uneasy charged with Davis, he stressed the importance of the charges against him and trying to gauge whether jihad is really loyal or just confusing and a potential candidate for this special youth rehabilitation.
Chicago, New York and other cities in the United States federal judge to turn a hard-line approach to suspected terrorists, and the men and women who have embraced the ideology of violence and pose a threat to national security that is locked up after hearing the public prosecutor. But Davis - who has a case pending in Minnesota all the recent violence, the group Islamic State of recruits for al-Shabaab, the Somali community - a cautious approach. He paid for pre-trial release, and young people in a positive direction and to keep the public safe schools and the community was asked to develop a plan that will guide. Dozens of similar cases continue at the national level, the Davis method can be a model for other courts, or can be disastrous if the wrong person at risk.
"I think that the problem of terrorism, he is not black and white, and gray, I think there's a lot to see," Davis said of the country's most experienced judges, which Anders Folk, a former federal prosecutor, said the state of Minnesota.
Davis did not talk about active cases, but he said during a recent hearing: ". This is not just an ordinary criminal case to be considered as a very important way"
Minnesota's first African-American federal judge, jury and sometimes he even had a friendly smile and that wide, and has a secure, charged, but look at it that even the most experienced lawyers in the disease. He was soft-spoken, but a big, booming voice could be of interest. The player, 68 years old, the court has no tolerance for disturbances, but it is better to ensure that everyone gets equal justice is known for.
July 8, 2015 In this picture taken, US District Judge Michael Davis of the main rooms of the posture ...
Davis, who is currently in front of the - - group of Islamic countries to travel to Syria to join the conspiracy charges eight young men pose a challenge to a judge, he was popular. They are emotionally complex and community management, and this need, and sometimes feel unfairly targeted.
It's his job to echo, before and after September 11, the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Davis, who worked, as a desperate attempt to explain the legal process :, take the podium to make sure parents understand the call and addresses of all the accused - members of the Somali community to consider Some.
"We really wetlands, or to understand the situation that has been shown, and he invited all of them to go ahead and talk to them face to face when the family," Mahmoud Nur said, calling on the Somali community. "When you talk to the family to talk directly to the children, they realize it."
Over the years the Faculty of Law at Fordham Karen Greenberg, director of the National Security Center, it is the defendants to appear in a Minnesota prison officials has improved. "All of these cases, instead of lumping them all together, the better, as the more subtle nuances of how the criminal justice system can be added to," he said.
Violation of the conditions and the abolition of the fleet - terror suspects before Davis was granted pre-trial release. He's planning a religious guidance, direction and guidance of others to create a mix of the defendants have asked.
July 8, 2015 In this picture taken, US District Judge Michael Davis poses for a photo in front of ...
"I ... just send someone home with the device to send a person to a halfway house, she just does not work," Davis said during a session. "I need your help. I need the help of the community."
He is considered the biggest problems that young extremists this month specify. This is a "noble goal" to be a lawyer, and from engaging in violence in other countries, search for programs designed to keep suspected terrorists, he said, thinking of something.
Davis, whose early career, the decision to include the disadvantaged communities, friends and colleagues is not a surprise. The hope of the people, and for the treatment of the accused has a reputation as a man the US District Court Judge Donovan Frank said.
"People do not always believe that the decision ... but I can say that no one really cares," Frank said.
A few years ago, Davis refused to stand up every time he allegedly held a contempt of terrorism. Wearing a religious head covering, he will not be in prison when he heard that, but, according to Davis, his lawyer, Dan Scott, is helping to find a solution.
July 8, 2015 In this picture taken, US District Judge Michael Davis in Minneapolis, raising his room ...
"It seems there is something wrong when she will try our best," he said.
In his 1994 appointment to the federal bench, and Davis was the first attorney general, and then judge the state. Minnesota became a judge in 2008, and recently resigned from the post. It plans to keep its current in all cases.
Davis is a role of his hero, former US Justice could be a clue about how to view the photos, the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall, hanging in his room. It is this statement: "Abolition of the walls, but this worked for me and you will not be able to build bridges, even, open, and sometimes legal action to force the door ..."