Please consider a donation to Lt Col Jeffrey Chessani defense fund!!! The battle continues!!! The govt has filed their appeal and the Chessani's have a limited amount of time to raise money for the defense. The continued prosecution of this courageous and loyal Marine is an outrage! Donate to the defense fund at Thomas More Law Center here , every bit helps! MILITARY: Marine Corps seeks to reinstate Haditha charges By MARK WALKER - Staff Writer August 5, 2008 CAMP PENDLETON ---- A judge abused his power when he dismissed dereliction of duty charges against Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani in the 2005 slaying of two dozen Iraqi civilians, according to an appeal filed on behalf of the Marine Corps. Navy Lt. Timothy Delgado argues the charges against Chessani should stand because the judge erred in declaring that Marine Gen. James Mattis was illegally influenced in his handling of the case. At issue is whether Mattis was guilty of "unlawful command influence" because he allowed his top legal aide, Col. John Ewers, to sit in on meetings with prosecutors. Ewers investigated the killings in the city of Haditha and is a potential prosecution witness. In his June 17 decision, the judge, Marine Col. Steven Folsom, ruled that Mattis was unduly influenced. The ruling has called into question all seven other Haditha cases and has implications in the only other remaining prosecution, that against Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich. "The military judge's findin ...
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