Chessani prosecution may be over [and case against SSgt Wuterich may be soon if there's justice]

North County Times ^ | May 5, 2009 | MARK WALKER

[RedRover]

The Marine Corps may be closer to giving up its troubled prosecution of Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani...

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...a final decision on whether the case gets dropped rests with Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Conway.

And if that happens, Chessani would become the seventh of eight Camp Pendleton Marines charged with crimes at Haditha to be fully exonerated.

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[SSgt Frank] Wuterich's attorneys plan to seek a dismissal of the charges against their client for the same unlawful command influence found in the Chessani case.

They haven't been able to file that motion, however, because his case is on hold after the Marine Corps appealed a judge's finding that outtakes of a CBS television "60 Minutes" interview with Wuterich contain nothing of value and won't be shared with prosecutors.

Wuterich attorney Neal Puckett said Tuesday that he will file a motion for dismissal as soon as a stay on further proceedings is lifted after a final decision on the "60 Minutes" issue is rendered.

"This case has gone on far too long and has really damaged Staff Sgt. Wuterich's career and personal life," Puckett said. "It's been terribly unfair."

[Marine_Uncle]

If the public only knew all the good things that have come out of the Iraqi SASO. Zero and his clowns would never had been elected.

[RedRover]

Amen to that! Not a single paper other than the North County Times ran Walker’s kind of story. Good news just doesn’t fit the agenda.

[4woodenboats]

Murtha looks strangely comfortable in that position...must be all that porking....