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2005-05-04 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Steve 2005-05-04 3:37:22 PM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 nice job, asshats. The budget Johnnie Cochran in the gold lame and spiked heels just cost her years in jail...

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-05-04 15:48|| 2005-05-04 15:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Talk about felony couture....I thought they stopped making stuff in that color in the 70ies.

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2005-05-04 16:11|| www.sgtstryker.com]">[www.sgtstryker.com] 2005-05-04 16:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't be too quick to judge. Military courts are rigorous in their rejection of BS, stuff that civilian courts are too quick to embrace. They want *justice*, not legal smoke and mirrors, and will bluntly beat up on *anybody*, attorneys included, who try to skunk them. They are the very best court to stand in front of if you are innocent, or have a damn good excuse; and yet they are merciless if you are wrong and criminal. It is not unusual, nor is it incorrect, for a court martial judge and his board to prosecute the case better than the JAG prosecutor and defend the case better than the JAG defense counsel. This is what *real* trial by a jury of your peers looks like, and it is head and shoulders over the civilian version.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-05-04 16:13|| 2005-05-04 16:13|| Front Page Top

#4 She reminds me of the 60s era terrorists here in California that copped a plea and said because she would never get a ''fair'' trial. The Judge ordered her back to jail to stand trial for attempted murder and conspiracy to commit against a peace officer after rejecting her plea. She then copt another plea and confessed to each and every one of the charges in open court. This will make it easier to dismiss her request for clemency becuase she did not know what she was pleading to. I'll bet Lyndie was copping a plea in court and professing her innocence outside court. She will go down hard (like before) for playing games with a Military judge.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2005-05-04 16:50|| 2005-05-04 16:50|| Front Page Top

#5 I also second what Anonymoose wrote about military courts being the best.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2005-05-04 16:54|| 2005-05-04 16:54|| Front Page Top

#6 I've also heard that if you are enlisted, never, ever, ask for a jury of enlisted personel, stick with officers. The most hard-ass sergeants that can be found will be gathered to render ~~you into meat~~ judgement.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2005-05-04 5:50:10 PM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2005-05-04 5:50:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Laurence: Everything varies. Under some circumstances, it would strongly be to an enlisted man's advantage to have enlisted on his board. The biggest one of these is when there is a problem ''because of a breakdown in the NCO chain-of-command'', which is every NCO's nightmare. Officers might not ''get it'', but I have seen a CSM turn pale in such a circumstance. A private might be seen as no more responsible for *anything* that happens under such a condition, any more than you would punish a four year old child for finding a handgun and firing it to some damage. Literally, enlisted personnel on the board could find mitigation in that case for damn near anything, though an officer might just shrug.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-05-04 21:46|| 2005-05-04 21:46|| Front Page Top

#8 From the blurb I saw it appeared that Grayner was trying to say that Lyndie's collar technique was an approved method for removing a recalcatrant prisoner from a cell so she was just following orders.

I guess he neglected to specify just who ordered a day-shift file clerk to moonlight on the mid watch cell extraction team.

Posted by Super Hose 2005-05-04 22:15|| 2005-05-04 22:15|| Front Page Top

#9 well he's just protecting the mother of his ~~evil spawn~~ baby

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-05-04 22:18|| 2005-05-04 22:18|| Front Page Top

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