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Thanks for the pings, all. Just catching up with FR.

Sources say the Marine brass has had it up to the helmet with the meddling and might install its own defense investigators to put civilians like Martin and Ames in their place and out of business.............

...........Hey, Marine Corps, quit while you're ahead.

Rick Rogers is 100% right on this one, IMO. 4wb, remember the comments Hap Ames was posting on the CAAFLOG thread about the Carolyn Martin suit? Colorful and controversial is a good way to describe him based on his posts! :-)

xzins - Notice the admission that Marine defendants have not had investigators for the defense in the past, and the admission that the Marine Corps should have them?

Yep, and it's interesting that Rick Rogers sees the trouble with banning independent civilian investigators from defending Marines. As he said,

Let's hope cooler heads prevail. Those in the know are wise to the fact that Marine defense lawyers are hamstrung like no other military attorneys in the land, and any further moves to undermine them might prompt someone into much delayed action.

If this happens, Article 32's/court martials and kangaroo courts will become synonymous.

Hi Girl,

Yeah, he was a kick, but the one Anon that inferred he held Ms Martin's future on the base was who I was interested in, and he crawled back in his hidey (hiney?) hole, and the topic kinda drifted off.

Hap wanted him too - most everyone did, and I think he has a pretty good idea who it is....he's probably still monitoring the site.

That was a great find of yours; I wonder what's been going on since then....

One post since I last checked;

BrigGen says:

September 24, 2010 at 1:33 am (Quote) "The case of discussion is that a defense investigator has claimed that her Constitutional Rights have been violated by NCIS Agents, SJA, etc. I’ve known Ms. Martin over ten years. In our many conversations, she has spoken with admiration of trial counsel, SJAs and yes, some NCIS Agents.

Ms. Martin’s track record speaks for itself – I’m guessing about an 85% success rate. Most notably, she recently conducted a post-trial investigation that resulted in an Article 120 conviction overturned at the NMCCA. It is clear that the negative comments found on this blog are baseless. I would expect that before litigating a case the case file would be read. I would suggest that Ms. Martin’s filed complaint and injunction motion be read before commenting on this blog.

In my ‘personal opinion’ no American should be denied their Constitutional Rights. I’m not an attorney but it doesn’t take a law degree to see what’s going on here."