Posted on 12/17/2010 6:27:27 AM PST by FS11
If his sentence is approved by the convening authority, Lakins case, because it includes dismissal, will be sent for automatic review by the Army Court of Criminal Appeals (ACCA), which has the authority to overturn his convictions.
Maj. Gen. Karl Horst, Lakin's commanding general, could also grant Lakin clemency.
If the ACCA upholds Lakins convictions, he can appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF).
If the CAAF agrees to hear Lakins appeal but denies it, Lakin can appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which rarely grants review for appeals of military justice system decisions.
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This is from the mysterious Dew Drop Warriors site...
Who are the Dew Drop Warriors?
There are several levels of confidentiality protecting the identity of this organization and its members.
Tips on Presenting Obama Indictments to Authorities
• Look at your rights –
Before going to the Court House or the Sheriff's Office, remind yourself of the rights “endowed by your creator.” You will be more confident and make a better presentation if you are familiar with the strong ground of your own position.
You are a citizen and you have the duty to report crimes Remember this important fact: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances”.
First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
Getting together to examine evidence of possible crimes by politicians and presenting evidence of such alleged crimes to the judiciary is "the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
While citizen convened Grand Juries are not common in modern times they still have the full force of the Constitution and law. Educating modern prosecuting attorneys and judges may be necessary. Here is a law professor's statement on Grand Juries.
“Grand juries also acted as a sword, seeking out corruption and preferring charges on their own. The classic example of a grand jury's acting as a sword is a runaway grand jury in New York in the 1930’s; the grand jurors ignored prosecutors and embarked upon their own investigation into municipal corruption. They eventually began cooperating with Thomas E. Dewey, a prosecutor whom they felt they could trust, and returned indictments against a variety of defendants, including well-known Mafia members.
As these examples may illustrate, the rationale for employing grand juries is in some senses analogous to the rationale for using trial jurors; both interject the common sense perspective of the average man or woman into the criminal justice system. For this reason, the grand jury has been described as "the voice of the community," in that it interjects a lay perspective into the earliest part of the criminal justice system, i.e., the investigative and charging processes. When the grand jury functions as it was intended to, the grand jurors both collaborate with prosecutors and act as a check on them. As a check, the grand jurors can either decline to bring charges sought by a prosecutor or decide to bring charges that have not been sought by a prosecutor.
The grand jury – which has also been described as the "Grand Inquisition" – conducts its proceedings in secret and has the power to subpoena witnesses and physical evidence, i.e., to require that testimony and evidence be brought before it. The failure to comply with a grand jury subpoena results in one being held in civil contempt and incarcerated until the witness complies; currently, the record for time served due to civil contempt is eight years. The Supreme Court has refused to apply the Miranda rule to the grand jury, so there is no right to counsel and no right to silence when one is subpoenaed by a grand jury. Witnesses can invoke their Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination (which is much narrower than the Miranda rule) and any applicable evidentiary privileges as the basis for refusing to testify or otherwise comply with a grand jury's demands.
The most unfortunate aspect of the modern grand jury is that because grand jurors tend to be ignorant of their role, they fall under the sway of prosecutors and, to use Sol Wachsler’s infamous phrase, are "willing to indict a ham sandwich" if asked to do so. The secrecy surrounding the role of the grand jury makes it very much a mystery to the general public; citizens’ only image of jurors comes from media and news portrayals of trial jurors, and trial jurors are entirely passive. This has subtly changed the functioning of grand juries over the last century or so, with the result being that they are far less independent than they used to be. This, in turn, is an unfortunate state of affairs, as it undermines the purpose of utilizing the "voice of the community."
There's more...
The directions for how to start and lead a Citizens Grand Jury are actually simple.
Here are some instructions that the average Patriot could act on:
1) Advertise and Promote the Fact that you are forming a Grand Jury in Blogs, Local Newspapers and Community Organizations.
2) Form the Grand Jury and select a Foreman.
3) Select a Private Attorney General to make Presentments to Grand Jury, if local DA refuses to make presentments.
4) Select a convenient Meeting Place.
4) Communicate with all Citizens who have criminal information to present.
6) Schedule presentments by said Citizens.
7) Subpoena documents from Government Offices and Officials.
8) Schedule presentment of said Documents to Grand Jury by Grand Jury Attorney General.
9. Have Grand Jury Attorney General present said Documents to Grand Jury.
10) After investigation and deliberation is completed, vote and issue a True Bill (Indictment) or No True Bill.
11 Announce all Indictments to the Press.
12) Serve the Indictment on the Judiciary for the Issuance of Arrest Warrants.
One of my advising attorneys thought it was important for all people involved in the Grand jury movement to know about this tactic.
It is very important that Patriots know to do this:
1) Find the CROOKED politicians in your City or Town that supported BO.
2) Link these CROOKED politicians to crimes committed by the BO Campaign.
3) Charge CROOKED politicians and BO as co-conspirators in the commission of campaign crimes and you have a Criminal Case against BO that can be prosecuted in Court in your County Seat.
4) Of course, you add all the other Crimes that BO committed elsewhere to your INDICTMENT also. But to prosecute BO in your State you have to link him as a co-conspirator to crimes committed in your State.
So important it bares repeating
1) Find the CROOKED politicians in your City or Town that supported BO.
2) Link these CROOKED politicians to crimes committed by the BO Campaign.
3) Charge CROOKED politicians and BO as co-conspirators in the commission of campaign crimes and you have a Criminal Case against BO that can be prosecuted in Court in your County Seat.
4) Of course, you add all the other Crimes that BO committed elsewhere to your INDICTMENT also. But to prosecute BO in your State you have to link him as a co-conspirator to crimes committed in your State.
All of the evidence you will need can be found here:
Validated Facts on Obama Eligibility Story Updated and Expanded
If you read the articles at the link and review the citations at the embedded links, you will be “literate” about the facts of the “eligibility” story and will be able to inform the public objectively.
I prefer statuatory Grand Juries.
77 posted on Friday, December 17, 2010 7:07:54 PM by jamese777
Unfortunately for you, according to Justice Antonin Scalia, your preference is delusional.
Justice Antonin Scalia: In fact, the whole theory of its (the Grand Jury) function is that it belongs to no branch of the institutional Government...”
Unfortunately for you, according to Justice Antonin Scalia, your preference is delusional.
Justice Antonin Scalia:
In fact, the whole theory of its (the Grand Jury) function is that it belongs to no branch of the institutional Government...
Where to even begin? I know the people who do this Club House Grand Jury stuff are beyond rational argument, but hasn't the success rate of it (0.00%) sunk in yet?
Yes, yes, I know, the entire justice system of the entire United States government and every state government is hopelessly corrupt and covering for Barack Obama and his Birth Certificate Gang. What's needed is obviously a courageous group of Sovereign Citizens to form Citizen Grand Juries, where “in brightest day, in darkest night, no evil shall escape their sight.” Then everything will be just ducky.
Oh, geez... Please do try to keep it in the club house. For your sake, guys, don't go all Walter Fitzgerald on us.
Oh, geez...
Where to even begin? I know the people who do this Club House Grand Jury stuff are beyond rational argument, but hasn’t the success rate of it (0.00%) sunk in yet?
Yes, yes, I know, the entire justice system of the entire United States government and every state government is hopelessly corrupt and covering for Barack Obama and his Birth Certificate Gang. What’s needed is obviously a courageous group of Sovereign Citizens to form Citizen Grand Juries, where in brightest day, in darkest night, no evil shall escape their sight. Then everything will be just ducky.
Oh, geez... Please do try to keep it in the club house. For your sake, guys, don’t go all Walter Fitzgerald on us.
Lakin manifest his virtue and exposed the lack of virtue of those deciding his case.
>> Are you aware he testified under oath that the orders were legal, and that he was wrong not to obey?
Though they are less likely to fail, reasonable people rarely rise to the stature of greatness.
Lakin’s goal may be “irrational”, but he stood on principal despite the odds. Typical of those that lay their lives on the line for our Liberties, our Freedom, our Constitutional Rights.
Lakin manifest his virtue and exposed the lack of virtue of those deciding his case.
Taking it back is impossible without violence.
He will be forever known as illegitimate, and rightfully so.
In the future, the NBC qualifications will have to be enforced for subsequent presidents. But not Soebarkah. He's our Affirmative Action President, and we lowered that standards for him, and him alone. A one time deal.
He got a pass, but not over eligibility.
I think we all need to admit the truth. The guy gets a pass because he’s back, and McCain gave it to him.
Taking it back is impossible without violence.
He will be forever known as illegitimate, and rightfully so.
In the future, the NBC qualifications will have to be enforced for subsequent presidents. But not Soebarkah. He’s our Affirmative Action President, and we lowered that standards for him, and him alone. A one time deal.
I favor getting rid of the 44th President of the United States the old fashioned way, fire him by voting him out of office in 2012.
As a federal judge said in ruling on one of the many failed Obama eligibility lawsuits: “The Court observes that the President defeated seven opponents in a grueling campaign for his party’s nomination that lasted more than eighteen months and cost those opponents well over $300 million. Then the President faced a formidible opponent in the general election who received $84 million to conduct his general election campaign against the President.
It would appear that ample opportunity existed for the discovery of evidence that would support any contention that the President was not eligible for the office he sought.
Furthermore Congress is apparently satisfied that the President is qualified to serve. Congress has not initiated impeachment proceedings, and in fact, in a broad bipartisan manner has rejected any suggestion that the President is not eligible for office. (See House Resolution 593, 111th Congress (2009)commemorating, by a vote of 378-0 the 50th anniversary of Hawai’i’s statehood and stating “the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama was born in Hawai’i on August 4, 1961.”
A spurious claim questioning the President’s constitutional legitimacy may be protected by the First Amendment, but a Court’s placement of its imprimatur upon a claim that is so lacking in factual support that it is frivolous would undoubtedly disserve the public interest.”—US District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, Judge Clay R. Land
“Rhodes v MacDonald,” September 16, 2009.
Judge Land was an appointee to the federal judiciary by President George W. Bush on the recommendation of Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss.
What reeducation camp Political Prisoner Lakin will be interred?
Will he be beaten by Obama’s political thugs during his indoctrination? Must he speak “Hail Obama” before being allowed a sip of putrid water?
It is a malicious atrocity what has happened and will happen to him.
It is only a matter of time before Obama unleashes general terror on the Christian middle class.
You can be proud to be a part of Obama grand scheme..to destroy America.
He will not prevail.
McCain provided all birth documents and then gave Obama a pass. McCain was arrogant and over the hill. He thought a black Muslim couldn't win. The MSM made sure he did.
Yes, Obama had tons of cash. He campaigned in Europe and got lots of illegal money. It allowed him to sway opinion with tons of commercials.
I give Obama the same credit that I would give a conman who walks out of a bank with a million dollars, never to be seen again. Both are clever and beat the system against all odds.
I just see it different.
McCain provided all birth documents and then gave Obama a pass. McCain was arrogant and over the hill. He thought a black Muslim couldn’t win. The MSM made sure he did.
Yes, Obama had tons of cash. He campaigned in Europe and got lots of illegal money. It allowed him to sway opinion with tons of commercials.
I give Obama the same credit that I would give a conman who walks out of a bank with a million dollars, never to be seen again. Both are clever and beat the system against all odds.
I believe that Obama actually selected McCain as the Republican he wanted to run against by funneling money to the McCain primary campaign through George Soros. Soros had long funded McCain’s campaign finance organization, The Reform Institute. It wouldn’t be hard for him to get funds to McCain that enabled McCain to have an advantage over the other Republican primary opponents.
McCain provided birth documents showing that he was born in Colon, Panama Canal Zone.
Like him or not, I think Romney would have cleaned his clock. When Romney got out of the race Obama went out of his way to mock him as he left. He was the one he feared most.
No kidding.
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