http://www.stripes.com/judge-obama-sex-assault-comments-unlawful-command-influence-1.225974
and so it begins the courts picking away at the assaut laws and blaming the Pres.
Two defendants in military sexual assault cases cannot be punitively discharged, if found guilty, because of “unlawful command influence” derived from comments made by President Barack Obama, a judge ruled in a Hawaii military court this week.
Navy Judge Cmdr. Marcus Fulton ruled during pretrial hearings in two sexual assault cases — U.S. vs. Johnson and U.S. vs. Fuentes — that comments made by Obama as commander in chief would unduly influence any potential sentencing, according to a court documents obtained by Stars and Stripes.On Wednesday and Thursday, Fulton approved the pretrial defense motions, which used as evidence comments that Obama made about sexual assault at a May 7 news conference.“The bottom line is: I have no tolerance for this,” Obama said, according to an NBC News story submitted as evidence by defense attorneys in the sexual assault cases.‘I expect consequences,” Obama added. “So I don’t just want more speeches or awareness programs or training, but ultimately folks look the other way. If we find out somebody’s engaging in this, they’ve got to be held accountable — prosecuted, stripped of their positions, court martialed, fired, dishonorably discharged. Period.”The judge’s pretrial ruling means that if either defendant is found guilty, whether by a jury or a military judge, they cannot receive a bad conduct discharge or a dishonorable discharge. Sailors found guilty under the Uniform Code of Military Justice’s Article 120, which covers several sexual crimes including assault and rape, generally receive punitive discharges.
this last 4 1/2 years have been spent by the republicans and the voters ignoring and blaming Pres. for right wing obstruction, so tell me why now is this judge worried about how someone would take a speech by Pres. as to the changes needed to protect those assaulted would influence. if you rape and assault you don't get do overs.
and here it is, we all know the military leans right so their goal is to continue to protect those violators at least make the SOB's wear a scarlet letter "R".
"A member of the public would not hear the President's statement to be a simple admonition to hold members accountable," Fulton stated. "A member of the public would draw the connection between the 'dishonorable discharge' required by the President and a punitive discharge approved by the convening authority.
they have an agenda to protect the military we on the other hand are free to seek real justice, i take umbrage to some stuff shirt with ribbons down to his waste tell me they know what i would think, how right wing can you get? only they know better then our lying brains. despicable them. riminisent of the Issa contraception trials without women, because they are aware of what they think and really need.
PRES.'S STATEMENT GOT MY VOTE!
