Posted on 06/22/2017 6:17:39 PM PDT by seekthetruth
Sgt. Miller is serving life in prison with the opportunity for parole in 2020. Sgt. Miller shot and killed an Afghan civilian following the civilian attempting to grab Sgt. Miller’s weapon during a period of intense questioning. The Afghan civilian was a suspected insurgent that was walking through Sgt. Miller’s “platoon defensive perimeter observing their defensive positions”.
Following the shooting, Sgt. Miller’s unit was implicated in a complex attack and Afghan National Army fighters that were assigned to stay with the platoon disappeared prior to the onset of the firefight. They hid behind a building.
Sgt. Miller was embroiled in a firefight the night he killed the Afghan man. The Afghan man was an insurgent and yet no one in the military wants to say this and directly confront the duplicitous Afghanis. The firefight was not instigated by American soldiers; the firefight was meant to kill American soldiers, and Afghan National Army fighters were nowhere to be found.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Unrelated case:
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/05/25/military-court-overturns-convictions-possible-command-influence.html
“In a 3-2 opinion published last week, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces said that because then-Lt. Gen. Craig Franklin, the authority in the case, had been told to retire or be fired because of his decisions in previous sexual assault cases, his move 10 days later to court-martial the airman could appear to be tainted by unlawful command influence”
Unrelated case:
https://warontherocks.com/2015/10/sexual-assault-in-the-military-and-the-unlawful-command-influence-catch-22/
“Recently, a military appellate court once again overturned a rape conviction on the grounds of unlawful command influence. This time (United States v. Garcia), the source of the influence went beyond a base commander or even a service chief and included comments made by President Obama and the general climate around sexual assault in the military command structure . . . It is with this background that the Garcia case was decided. The Garcia opinion noted that “with multiple references — some overt and others thinly veiled — to the Army’s efforts to confront sexual assault, the government attempted to impermissibly influence the panel’s findings by injecting command policy into the trial.” In the Garcia case, the prosecutor repeatedly, and improperly, mentioned the Army’s stance on sexual assaults.”
and
“Then, in the high-profile prosecution of Army Brig. Gen. Jeffery Sinclair for sexual assault against a subordinate, the military judge ruled that unlawful command influence had tainted the trial. Former Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. James Amos, was also found to have exercised unlawful command influence when he commenced on a worldwide speaking tour addressing the Corps about the problem of sexual assault. His actions resulted in a military court of appeals overturning a conviction for sexual assault.”
Unrelated case:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/12/patrick-lorge-retired-admiral-charges-pentagon-bra/
“A retired admiral is accusing the highest levels of the Navy legal corps at the Pentagon of improperly interfering in the case of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of sexual assault. Retired Rear Adm. Patrick J. Lorge charges in a May 5 signed affidavit that the then-judge advocate general of the Navy and her deputy tried to persuade him not to exonerate the sailor because it would be bad public relations for the Navy and hurt Mr. Lorge’s career.”
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While these and many others that come to mind are all sexual misconduct cases, they prove a pattern of improper command influence in military trials under the former occupant of the Commander-in-Chief’s office. That is certainly relevant to the question of whether there was improper political influence in yet another trial with political significance.
BUMP!
Free Derrick Miller Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/FreeDerrickMiller/
Not sure what this guy’s deal is:
https://www.facebook.com/UsMilitaryOnTheMoveByDerrickMillerJbGoodwinRealtor/
And the military court that found him guilty.
This man is a hero and is being railroaded.
Politics can be an evil force that contradicts justice and common sense. The “political animals” allow themselves and their decisions to be blown by political winds,not by right and wrong. Obama administration negatively influenced military on many political levels and issues.
Thanks for the ping.
You may not want to ping the Boy Scouts, but I still have a list of hundreds and believe that many will always be Boy Scouts in their hearts, based on the old oath before the hedonist takeover. I removed your screenname from my BSA list, per your request, long ago.
I find it shocking that of the "Leavenworth Ten" who have been identified by military incarceration activists as having been unjustly convicted, Derrick is the only black man, and was given the most severe sentence; yet most of the others have had their sentences reduced or parole offered. It just heaps coals on the situation for his dear mother, wife and daughter, and it's so wrong. And it was during the previous President.
You can use the link provided in the article to petitiion the White House, and if you have a facebook or other social media account, you can link it the article and the petitiion to your friends as well.
Very well said.
There is plenty of info available. Just do an online search.
Please remove from all your ping lists.
Thank you!
You were only on one, and now you’re off. You’re welcome!
The Derrick Miller (a realtor) referred to in your link is not Sgt Derrick Miller referred to in the article above.
thank you
Sgt. Miller is from Maryland.
Maryland PING!
Yes, Cummings is from Maryland, and he is both an embarrassment and comic relief to sane-minded Marylanders.
The Congressional Black Caucus is once again proving itself to be the most useless legislative group in Congress by apparently not lifting a finger on behalf of this black soldier.
PING!
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