Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $33,557
41%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 41%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: charlesgranerjr

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Accused Abu Ghraib ringleader may testify at own trial

    01/10/2005 9:40:17 AM PST · by weegee · 6 replies · 448+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Jan. 10, 2005, 1:17AM | no byline
    FORT HOOD -- In his quarter century working in military courts, attorney Guy Womack can count on the fingers of one hand the times he has allowed a client to testify. "My knee-jerk reaction is never to do that," said Womack, an ex-Marine Corps lawyer based in Houston. "I've never regretted not doing that." But he may make an exception to his rule for Spc. Charles Graner Jr., the Army reservist accused of leading the much-publicized abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. He says Graner, whose trial begins with opening statements Monday, can explain better than anyone...
  • Jury seated in court-martial of accused abuse ringleader

    01/08/2005 3:34:30 PM PST · by Valin · 3 replies · 202+ views
    AP ^ | 1/8/04 | T.A. Badger
    FORT HOOD, Texas - A jury of 10 soldiers was selected Friday to decide whether the accused ringleader of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal was illegally beating inmates or following orders to soften up the detainees for interrogation. Opening statements begin Monday in the court-martial of Spc. Charles Graner Jr., of Uniontown, Pa., the first soldier to be tried in the scandal. Graner, pictured in some of the notorious photographs of Iraqi inmates being sexually humiliated at the Baghdad prison, sat calmly at the defense table Friday and may testify on his own behalf. He was upbeat when speaking...