Gonzalo P. Curiel
| Gonzalo Paul Curiel | |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California | |
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Assumed office October 1, 2012 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Thomas J. Whelan |
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| Born |
Gonzalo Paul Curiel 1953 (age 63–64) East Chicago, Indiana |
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Indiana University B.A. Indiana University Maurer School of Law J.D. |
Gonzalo Paul Curiel (born 1953) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
Curiel was born in East Chicago, Indiana, the youngest of four children. Their parents, Salvador and Francisca, had emigrated from Mascota, a small Mexican town near Puerto Vallarta in the state of Jalisco. Salvador worked as a laborer in Arizona before moving to Indiana where he worked in the steel mills. Curiel's parents married in 1946 and later became American citizens.
Curiel graduated from high school at the Bishop Noll Institute. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University in 1976 and his Juris Doctor from the Indiana University School of Law in 1979 and is a member of the fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi.
Curiel served in private practice, first at James, James & Manning from 1979 to 1986 and then at Barbosa & Vera from 1986 to 1989. He was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of California from 1989 to 2002. While in the Southern District, he served as Deputy Chief (1996-1999) and then Chief (1999-2002) of the Narcotics Enforcement Division.
During his tenure with the Narcotics Enforcement Division, Curiel handled a case involving two alleged members of the Arellano Felix cartel of Tijuana, Mexico. U.S. law enforcement arrested the two alleged murderers in California, based on information from Mexican authorities, and Curiel sought their extradition to Mexico. The two men objected to extradition by arguing that the information used to track them down had been obtained in Mexico via torture. Curiel argued: "The [U.S.] Government is not here to deny there is a possibility of torture....There are serious allegations of torture. But the forum for those allegations to be aired is the Government of Mexico."
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