Thnks. I listened to the interview.
First, Louie Gohmert is probably one of the top 5 people in Congress.
Second, you will notice that not once did Louis discuss the fact that the witnesses said the defendant straddled the victim, then shot him in the head, aNd said” he lied. I killed him”. In fact Louis never mentioned the evidence against him once!
Instead Louis talks about the camp, and Obama’s rule of engagements, AND EVERY other irrelevant thing other than the evidence in the case. Now Louis is a former prosecutor so he is smart enough to know what is relevant and what is not. He didn’t discussThe actual facts of the case because they don’t help the defendant. Period. All of us lawyers know not to go where things hurt our case.
This soldier got a break when the board reduced his murder from first degree to second degree, thus making him eligible for parole. He would have been convicted in civilian court as well . You will notice that NO ONE except the non lawyers on FR contend that he is innocent. Neither the army, the appeals court, nor Louis Gohmert say he isn’t guilty. They just didn’t like the harsh sentence.
The reality is he is guilty. He should thank his lucky stars that he only had to serve 7 years when the normal sentence for non capital second degree murder usually runs around 15.
Oh, I see; an armchair prosecutor. Where is you evidence that the witness who claimed he straddled the spy was actually telling the truth? In fact, where is your citation for this claim? And what if he did, when they were struggling for the gun? Was the origin of this claim the Afghani who changed his testimony to get a green card, or one of the other soldiers who were threatened by the prosecutors, as Gohmert mentioned, to change their testimony?
Were you there? Were you an eyewitness, or can you produce a credible eyewitness? Or are you just wanting bragging rights here on FR for your dramatic take-down over the Internet of what all the real lawyers and analysts to the actual case, the actual records, the actual testimony and the witnesses have said? Are you aware that some of the coerced men from his unit came forward later and recanted?
Had Gohmert gone into the details of the case on a mass-market radio show, the audience would have tuned out. He fitted his remarks to the audience. You have just now claimed to be a lawyer, so I have not addressed you in those terms heretofore. Are you an Army lawyer, or any kind of military lawyer? Come on, trot out your creds, which I already doubt, since you called this soldier a “dirtbag” from the jump, and the rest of us in support of him “ignorant fools.” Where did you go to law school, pray tell? Where did you find your records of this case, and what are the citations so that the rest of us may see your evidence?