Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Chessani and his wife, Alissa, walk to his arraignment at Camp Pendleton, followed by his attorneys.
Posted on 06/09/2008 6:32:39 PM PDT by RedRover
Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Chessani and his wife, Alissa, walk to his arraignment at Camp Pendleton, followed by his attorneys.
They need to drop this entire charade and give restitution for the time and effort and grief they have caused these warriors.
One of these days, after the next revolution, it will be the law that the defense has access to as much money as the government prosecuting them. The government should provide to the defenses a check every week for what the government has spent in the preceding week.
There have been to many innocent people railroaded because they don’t have the money to defend themselves and why should their money be used to defend themselves. Until convicted, it should not cost them a thing.
Big BUMP to that, pissant!
Ware, the IO in the murder case against exonerated Marine LCpl Justin Sharratt, took the unusual action of revealing what he viewed as an egregious case of undue command influence by Riggs.
“I viewed Lt. Col. Riggs’ comments as inappropriate and imprudent. … I was … offended and surprised by this conversation,” Ware responded in an email.
Subsequently Riggs recused himself from that case.
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Un - freaking - believable.
Won't happen. The JAGoffs going after our Marines are ACLU Democrats who are putting in "military" time in order to burnish their resumes for their own selfish political ambitions. They don't care about anything but themselves.
This is a great, updated summary of the entire fiasco.
Kudos to Nat.
Prayers for LtCol Chessani and his family.
The Jags don’t get to make executive decisions. The command needs to override these fools. Someone in the chain of command must have some balls.
The ambushed infantrymen were later accused by Time magazine and Congressman John Murtha with going berserk; hunting down innocent civilians and shooting them in cold blood. The subsequent investigation showed that none of the circumstances cited by Time and Murtha proved to be true.
We're getting there my brother.
My mantra around here for at least a year has been, “Why doesn’t the Commander-in-Chief pick up the friggin phone and get rid of this mess? He can do that, you know.
I had to read this line six times
My brain kept telling me "Congressman John Murtha went berserk and ambushed the infantrymen with a Time magazine."
The nicotine ( I stopped smoking yesterday) withdrawals must be worse than I thought.
Thanks for the ping.
My thoughts and prayers for the Chessani family.
That’s great!
When it came out that LtCol Riggs pulled that stunt it caused quite a ruckus there and here. The feeling was by many here that Gen. Mattis was really pi$$ed and that Riggs recused himself at the behest of Mattis. Nothing official ever came out except that he recused himself.
And he should. Then again, two border patrolmen continue to rot in jail as well.
I know -- fat chance !!
Hang in there Fred, you got one day behind you. It will eventually get easier, I know.
One more time. Nuthin to be sorry about. :)
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