Posted on 05/06/2005 8:24:52 AM PDT by Dubya
KILLEEN - The government will file new charges soon against Pfc. Lynndie England, whose guilty plea was thrown out and her court martial canceled Wednesday over testimony by the convicted ringleader in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, an Army defense lawyer said Thursday after meeting with military prosecutors.
But the charges will have to be investigated anew in what the military calls an Article 32 hearing -- similar to a civilian grand jury but open to the defense and the public -- before England, 22, can be faced with a new trial. A new trial could occur sometime this summer at Fort Hood, said the lawyer, Capt. Jonathan Crisp. He said it was premature to speculate about another guilty plea.
"We want an investigation from scratch," he said.
In the fallout from the mistrial, Crisp's civilian co-counsel, Richard Hernandez of Denver resigned Wednesday, citing financial reasons. He had been working on the case for free for 11 months with his wife, a paralegal, "and just can't afford to do that anymore," Hernandez said by telephone on his way back to Denver.
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i dunno, she looks too much like ET to me...
wow, they're determined to get to the bottom of this, aren't they.
(hint: Lynndie was part of the pig party. Let the girl go)
Everytime I see this chick the more she looks like Janet Reno
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