6.14.2004
Trials To Offer Rare Public Glimpse Of Military Justice
From the Army Times
via the Raleigh News & Observer
Associated Press
11 Jun 04
Fort Bragg will host several high-profile military justice cases in the coming weeks, offering a rare look inside a system overshadowed by the chain of command that regulates military life.
Army reservist Pfc. Lynndie England is scheduled later this month for a weeklong pretrial hearing on charges that she abused prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq last year.
In the fall, Sgt. Hasan Akbar will be court-martialed on charges that he threw grenades into tents of sleeping soldiers and shot them as they emerged in Kuwait last year.
The fairness of military justice will come under scrutiny in those cases and during the prosecutions of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay.
The military has long been aware that the outside world is skeptical of its justice system. Public confidence would benefit from reforms that a review commission has pushed, including reducing commanders' influence in choosing jurors and in making pretrial decisions on witnesses and evidence, said Eugene Fidell of the National Institute of Military Justice.
I can't wait to see it. I had a Summary Court Martial and a Special Court Martial, and I still don't know what happened
via the Raleigh News & Observer
Associated Press
11 Jun 04
Fort Bragg will host several high-profile military justice cases in the coming weeks, offering a rare look inside a system overshadowed by the chain of command that regulates military life.
Army reservist Pfc. Lynndie England is scheduled later this month for a weeklong pretrial hearing on charges that she abused prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq last year.
In the fall, Sgt. Hasan Akbar will be court-martialed on charges that he threw grenades into tents of sleeping soldiers and shot them as they emerged in Kuwait last year.
The fairness of military justice will come under scrutiny in those cases and during the prosecutions of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay.
The military has long been aware that the outside world is skeptical of its justice system. Public confidence would benefit from reforms that a review commission has pushed, including reducing commanders' influence in choosing jurors and in making pretrial decisions on witnesses and evidence, said Eugene Fidell of the National Institute of Military Justice.
I can't wait to see it. I had a Summary Court Martial and a Special Court Martial, and I still don't know what happened
# posted by Frank_D @ 08:26 
