Right is wrong, cold is hot, up is down.
Light for darkness, bitter for sweet?
They'll tell you black is really white. The moon is just the sun at night.
What the average person/juror doesn't understand is that the American system of justice has been so completely corrupted that in many trials there is way too much that is left unsaid and too many people are wrongly convicted. The prosecution doesn't care about the truth. All they care about is winning. Another notch on their pistola. And there is the prevailing attitude that if a person has been alleged to have committed a crime, then they are guilty.
The problem the defense faces is partly not knowing the right question to ask. Most witnesses are not allowed to soliloquize.
And to somehow think that the military is any more honorable, more aligned to producing the truth, and thereby able to more fairly dispense justice is proving itself to be a fairy tale.
"I'll tell you after" the hanging is such complete bullsh!+.
The situation you have described is called "combat".
Here is the situation described by the prosecutor's charge:
That has described murder, not combat.
History says that the ancient Celts fought naked in combat. This man was not an ancient Celt.