I was really hoping Capt Rugh would dismiss all charges because of the prosecutorial misconduct.
The Navy has concluded that one of its top judges did not lie when he provided erroneous information about witnesses while testifying under oath at an administrative hearing.
Last year, The Washington Post found that Cmdr. Aaron Rugh made false statements in 2014 to a board of officers deciding whether a Marine he had prosecuted for sexual misconduct should be expelled from the service.
That discovery led to an ethics inquiry — just part of the fallout from the flawed investigation into Marine Maj. Mark Thompson, a former history instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy convicted of having sex with two female midshipmen. He is accused of lying to the same board and faces a second court-martial because of The Post’s revelations about his case.