[Zeroisanumber]

Defense lawyers sought leniency for Pfc. Lynndie England at a hearing Tuesday to determine her punishment in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, with a psychologist testifying that the reservist was oxygen-deprived at birth, speech impaired and had trouble learning to read.

So an idiot did an idiotic thing. How does that make her not guilty?

[El Gato]

So an idiot did an idiotic thing. How does that make her not guilty?

She'd already pleaded guilty, this was during the punishment phase, when any extenuating circumstances are taken into account. Of course the judge then threw out her guilty plea, based on the testimony of her sperm doner, and declared a mistrial. And the judge did the right thing based on a UCMJ provision, which I just looked up earlier today.