But why let them win like that? Why not make the government prove its case? At the very least, we’d be allowed to see what information the government haves that proves that it is in the right. I still think my original claim stands, this guy has no case, and he is just hoping for leniency in sentencing.
That won’t go anywhere either. No civilian court has ever accepted any sort of challenge to 0bama’s eligibility. It is highly unlikely they would for this situation either.
“When a defendant pleads guilty, whether in a civilian court or a military court martial, they give up their right to appeal.”
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Not only that, but he must sit down with the judge and convince her that he understands what it means to plead guilty — in this case, it means acknowledging that he knows the orders he disobeyed were legal orders.
If he’s not able to do that convincingly, the judge must reject the guilty plea and he will face trial on those counts.