[SeaHawkFan]

“The prosecution made a colossal blunder not calling Lt. Gen. Helland to testify,” opined Thompson, who presides over the Ann Arbor-based Thomas More Law Center. “Folsom has already decided there is evidence of inappropriate command influence and it is now the prosecution’s burden to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it didn’t occur. Without Helland’s testimony to corroborate Mattis they failed to meet that burden.”

Any takers on a bet that the prosecutors were told to not call Helland? Protecting Helland is more important than working for a (an unjust) coviction against Chessani?

[bigheadfred]

What are they protecting Helland from?

You mean holding on until he gets his next star and someone else is the convening authority?

The way they been dragging this thing out, no telling who the Gestapo thug running the circus will be when the big top folds in Haditha and moves on to the next town.

[billmor]

hehehe...Great observation....Betcha dupa they were told not to call Lt. Gen. Helland...