Military jury

Source: twitter.com --- 11 days ago
Brenlo: jury duty reminds me of the Military. Hurry up and wait. ...

Source: aguynamedbrian.blogspot.com --- 19 days ago
All three New York City police officers have been acquitted of all counts late Monday morning in the trail of Officer Richard Kern, accused of police brutality by Michael Mineo. The alleged attack took place on a platform of a Brooklyn subway platform, Kern apparently having sodomized Mineo with a baton while two other officers looked on, who witnesses said during the trial taunted Mineo. The jury took one day to reach a verdict. According to reports, Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman will introduce a bill next week to repeal the American Military ban on gays serving openly. Lieberman, an independent as well as a critical member of the senate armed services committee, will act as the bill’s sponsor, but many fear that the senator’s history of erratic political decisions coupled with fact that Lieberman has made numerous enemies on both the left and the right, will undermine any chance the bill has to succeed. Lieberman says his commitment to repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” is twofold. Allowing gays to serve openly dovetails with the American promise of providing all with “an equal opportunity to do whatever job their talents and sense of purpose and motivations lead them to want to do, including Military service,” and, according to the senator,” When you artificially limit the pool of people who can enlist then you are diminishing Military effectiveness.” An exhaustive study to be released Tuesday found foreign militaries that hav ...

Source: www.kens5.com --- 29 days ago
A jury deliberated for 3 hours in the case of a 19-year-old man accused of killing a woman in October 2008. The guilty verdict was read with 13 bailiffs present. Cox had threatened to create a scene. As he was escorted out of the courtroom he told his mother he never wanted any of this to happen. He told her, I love you and she returned the saying. Prosecutors say Quinton Cox shot 26-year-old April Phillips the Walters St. bridge. Phillips was shot multiple times in the back of the head. But the weapon was never found. Phillips was living at Fort Sam Houston with her Military husband and 2-year-old son. Her parents believe Phillips was car jacked. Prosecutor Lorina Rummel said witnesses who were with Cox testified he was the shooter. "In the courtroom the truth comes out," said Rummel. "There was no reason to kill April Phillips and that defendant said, 'I killed her.'" A 16-year-old boy testified he saw Cox shoot Phillips, and said Cox threatened him not to tell anyone. In closing arguments defense attorney Cornelius Cox said several of the witnesses admitted they were using drugs. He said their testimony was riddled with problems. Defense attorney Charles Bunk said the scientific evidence doesn't add up. Pointing at Cox, Bunk said, "April Phillips was murdered, but it sure wasn't him." Quinton Cox faces 5 to 99 years or life in prison. The punishment phase begins Tuesday at 1'30 p.m. ...

Source: www.dailyitem.com --- 35 days ago
On questions of national security, U.S. Rep. Chris Carney speaks with the authority of being an expert on Military intelligence and (as he noted) “the only member of Congress to have interrogated detainess at Guantanamo Bay.” ...

Source: www.podtrac.com --- 38 days ago
Steve Kraske talks with David Lieb, the Associated Press' Jefferson City bureau chief and Jason Noble, the Kansas City Star's Jefferson City reporter about the ongoing grand jury investigation into pay-for-play allegations in the Missouri Legislature. Also today - a conversation about possible repeal of the U.S. Military's "don't ask don't tell" policy. Dr. Beth Schissel, a pediatrician at Children's Mercy Hospital talks about being kicked out of the Air Force when she revealed she was a lesbian and Dr. Nathaniel Frank, a senior research fellow at the Palm Center and author of Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America join the conversation. Finally, KCUR's Dan Verbeck reports from the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce's annual governors' summit, where results of a poll were released showing that progress in the Kansas City region is being held back by elected and business officials. ...

Source: www.tomchambless.com --- 77 days ago
via: Israeli Troops Kill 6 in West Bank, Gaza | CommonDreams.org NABLUS, West Bank – Israeli troops killed six Palestinians on Saturday in two separate operations, including a raid in the West Bank targeting members of president Mahmud Abbas’ Fatah movement. The incursion in the northern West Bank town of Nablus saw dozens of Israeli jeeps surround [...] ...

Source: www.worldnetdaily.com --- 78 days ago
Nat Hentoff: 6 senior officers rose above wreck of American justice system ...

Source: www.jotcanada.com --- 120 days ago
Glenn Greenwald : Omar Khadr -- the Canadian "child soldier" imprisoned at Guantanamo for the last seven years, since he was 15 years old, for allegedly throwing a grenade at an American soldier in Afghanistan (that's apparently "terrorism") and the subject of a difficult-to-watch video of him weeping like the child he is while being interrogated -- will reportedly be one of those denied a trial and instead allowed only a Military commission, according to Canada's Canwest News Service  (h/t sysprog): Canadian-born terror suspect Omar Khadr faces continued prosecution in the U.S. Military tribunal established in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. . . . The federal system offers the full panoply of defendant rights available to U.S. citizens under the U.S. Constitution, while civil rights groups have argued the Military commissions at the U.S. naval base in Cuba do not meet that standard. So that's how the US treats the citizens of a nation that is its ally in the war in Afghanistan? ...