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FORT RUCKER, Ala. - A mobilized National Guard lieutenant was acquitted of rape and adultery charges in a court-martial at Fort Rucker, Ala., but the judge found him guilty April 27 of conduct unbecoming an officer. 1st Lt. Michael Hall, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment, from Nashville, Tenn., was acquitted of the first two charges due to what the defense called "an abundance of reasonable doubt and the judge's ability to sift through the garbage and find the truth." At the conclusion of the three-day trial, Judge (Col.) Richard Gordon said the defense counsel successfully disproved Hall's accuser, 1st Lt. Jennifer...

FORT RUCKER, Ala. — An Army chaplain testified Tuesday that a former National Guard soldier from New Jersey who accused a fellow officer of raping her was viewed as "untruthful" by military colleagues. Maj. William Cruz also said he counseled the soldier charged with rape, 1st Lt. Mike Hall, and found him trustworthy. "He was truthful to a fault," said Cruz. The testimony by Cruz came in the court-martial of Hall, 35, of Nashville, Tenn. Former 1st Lt. Jennifer Dyer, 26, has alleged that Hall raped her twice in her barracks room after an evening at the officers club at...

FORT RUCKER, Ala. - Attorneys for Lt. Mike Hall, accused of stalking and raping a fellow soldier, assailed the alleged victim during the first day of trial, claiming the accuser made up the attack in an attempt to avoid deployment to Iraq. Jennifer Dyer, a former first lieutenant in the New Jersey National Guard, told a military judge Monday that in August 2004, Hall tore off her clothes and raped her twice in her barracks room at Camp Shelby, near Hattiesburg, Miss. During cross examination, Hall's attorney Victor Kelley pointed out that Dyer had submitted an unsuccessful request for resignation...

FORT RUCKER, Ala. (AP) - An Army officer accused of stalking a former New Jersey National Guard soldier for days and then raping her in her barracks room went on trial in a military court Monday. First Lt. Mike Hall is accused of raping Jennifer Dyer last August at Camp Shelby, near Hattiesburg, Miss. ``He refused to take `no' for an answer,'' said prosecutor Capt. Jeffrey Dodson. But defense attorney Victor Kelley said Dyer, also a first lieutenant at the time, made up the allegation to get out of the Army and avoid duty in Iraq. He questioned why she...

Army Rape Accuser Speaks Out A 60 Minutes Special Report Feb 20, 2005 4:54 pm US/Mountain Few problems have been more persistent or produced more bad news for the military than the issue of rape within its own ranks. Allegations that not enough is being done to help victims or prosecute offenders have been raised from the service academies to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan -- where hundreds of cases of sexual assault have been reported by women in uniform. It was that revelation, plus pressure from Congress, that’s forced the Pentagon to once again examine sexual misconduct in...

MAYS LANDING, N.J. - A former National Guard lieutenant said in a TV interview that the Army treated her "like a criminal" after she accused a fellow soldier of rape. Jennifer Dyer, 26, said in the interview to be broadcast Sunday on "60 Minutes" that Army investigators sequestered her in a hotel after the incident and threatened her with arrest when she didn't return to the base following a two-week convalescent leave. The Army "has done nothing but lie to me and treat me like a criminal," said Dyer, who is from Mays Landing and has agreed to be identified...

(CBS) The words "zero tolerance" used by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to describe the military's policy on sexual assault ring hollow in the ears of former Lt. Jennifer Dyer. In her first interview, Dyer tells Correspondent Steve Kroft that she was treated like a criminal by the Army after accusing a fellow officer of rape. Dyer's interview will be broadcast on 60 Minutes, Sunday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m. ET/PT. "[The Army has] done nothing but lie to me and treat me like a criminal," says Dyer, now out of the Army, which granted her request for an honorable discharge...