[4woodenboats]

It makes me wonder if any on that jury can really imagine a woman with a suicide vest blowing herself up to kill a perceived enemy or four “docile” unlawful enemy combatants that had just stashed their weapons after killing Marines being captured in the middle of a combat zone.

If these jurors are to pass judgment, they need to know what sort of environment the Marines were operating in. This is probably the 1st time that woman ever heard of such a thing - maybe she'll realize what sort of hellish standards our enemies keep, and that there's no way to survive an operation like Fallujah if you believe you can stroll in there and peacefully arrest "docile" terrorists, death squads imported from the most evil and murderous jihadist enclaves in the middle east.

I think the defense should continue to paint the picture that earned combat the term "chaos" if civilians have a chance of understanding what our guys survived...oh, wait a minute ~ wasn't Major Schmidt a witness for the prosecution?

Sounds like the prosecution's 1st volley was an "own goal".

[jazusamo]

Agreed. US Attorney Kovats was not at all impressive and sounds like fish out of water. It doesn’t seem the two military attorneys have been much help to him as yet.

[B4Ranch]

Trying to explain to this jury that cutting the bottom out of a can of Coke, putting a fragmentation grenade inside the can, pulling the pin and having a cute little six year old sit the can down in a market is not an unheard of tactic. Can the jury envison what the remains look like of the innocent victim(s) who thinks they are picking up an unopened can of soda pop?

The jury will not envison a victim whose face has been erased and their body shredded by the frag grenade. Why not? Because they have no experience in matters such as this. They will think grenade make a lot of noise and the injuries come from flying soil particles and small rocks, not the thousands of tiny bits of wire 1/8 of an inch long. A frag grenade is made from one long piece of indented wire wrapped around an explosive C-4 charge encapsulated in a metal casing using a blast cap to set if off.

It’s things such as this that mandate the requirements that combat veterans be the only ones who should ever hold trial on other soldiers. Until you have been there you can’t possibly have any idea what war is about.

We must get this Marine out of this civilian courtroom and into a court martial of his peers.