Watada Court-Martial delayed by Federal Court.
Unfrigging believable.
judge halts Iraq war objector’s court-martial
A federal court judge has temporarily blocked a court-martial scheduled to start Tuesday for an Iraq war objector based at Fort Lewis.
First Lt. Ehren Watada is charged with refusing to deploy to Iraq. His lawyers argue the Army is violating his constitutional rights by trying him twice for the same crime.
U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle ruled he has jurisdiction to issue the stay and that Watada's double-jeopardy claim is not frivolous
The matter is under appeal in the Military Court systems, the Judge should have stayed out of it until that appeal was exhausted..
This is just wrong.
On October 6, 2007 at 10:55 am, Playin' Possum wrote:
HA HA HA!!!
AWESOME! WHODA THUNK IT! THE CONSTITUTION TRUMPS THE MILITARY!
The military is out of control. Time to put them down.
On October 6, 2007 at 2:49 pm, LSU wrote:
bull. Show me how a mistrial amounts to double jeopardy, particularly when the defense caused the mistrial.