Posted on 10/06/2006 10:43:07 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Melson J. Bacos, center, is escorted Friday morning into his court-martial hearing by his defense attorneys, Marine Corps Lt. Col. Scott Jack, left, civilian defense counsel Jeremiah Sullivan, right, and Navy Lt. Jonathan Stephens, back left, held at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base.
Sad, war is hell and these guys did a bad thing AND got caught.
He is not a Marine.
Correct on the title, should have said Pendleton 8 Corpsman or such, tho some might say that Corpsman in the field are parts of the units they live and work with.
It's a damn shame we have to send off our fine young men off in harm's way and see them come back to this fate.
Gee, if they could only keep from kidnapping and murdering people maybe things would work out better.
So this guy gets a deal to only spend 12 months in prison for pre-meditated murder in return for pimping on his buddies
Nice deal if you can get it. Too bad he cant spend that 12 months in the General population with the guys he pimped on.
I would say that after spending months under confinement, with prosecution working on him night and day, with a deal of 12 months for 1st degree murder and con spiring to commit murder, that his testimony is shady at best.
Now the prosecution hopes to use his testimony to break the rest.
These guys may indeed be guilty, but it seems to me they are guilty of doing what the courtsover there couldnt get done, taking out a killer who beat the rap. A killer who was a known insurgent arrested 3 times and turned loose. Not exactly legal of course, but understandable when you have lost friends to people just like him.
But, they're BRAVE HEROES! The t-shirt says so!
If you read the article, they couldn't get the first guy they were after (who probably was an insurgent), so they decided to go grab this guy (who may not have been one at all).
Way to go, guys, making us look like the Germans on Kristallnacht.
they flipped him - held him in handcuffs 23 hours a day until he broke, and was willing to say anything for a plea deal.
the cabal inside the pentagon to convict these guys is very strong, and there is no check to their power to do so apparently. the left wants a conviction here, at any cost.
The lawyer on the right was on Savage's show more than once, and Savage helped raise money for the snitch and the aforementioned lawyer. Interesting.
See Post #2.
Name names.
they are being railroaded.
if I knew names, I would.
tell me the names of the lawyers who blocked able danger?
savage raised that money when they were all standing together, he had no way to know whether someone was going to flip in exchange for the plea deal.
How can a group of people get together (conspire) and go out and kill someone - be railroaded? - I am a former Marine and not happy with any aspect of this.
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