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To: EDINVA
Why can’t there be a fund in that same military budget that would afford the charged soldier to retain independent competent legal assistance?

In the Army, anyway, there is. The Trial Defense Service is separately funded and supervised from the (prosecuting) Trial Counsels.

8 posted on 05/10/2008 9:42:03 AM PDT by jude24 (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: jude24

Does that fund allow the charged soldier to retain and pay his/her own counsel, independent completely of the military ? Or is it the equivalent of the Public Defenders Offices in civilian criminal courts, where you get an attorney appointed for you from a pool ?

If my soldier were charged, I’d want someone completely free of any overriding military influence, as in ... I’d want my soldier’s attorney(s) to be free to represent him/her without any thought of the attorney’s future regarding referrals or promotions, or any other benefit that could be offered or denied my soldier’s attorney(s).


10 posted on 05/10/2008 10:50:45 AM PDT by EDINVA (Proud American for 23,062 days.... and counting!)
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