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Originally Posted by Adam
I agree re: asking the judge and prosecutor to recuse themselves. They're essentially former colleagues of the plaintiff. If that's not a conflict of interest, I don't know what is.
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Considering how many people in the country were once in the military service for a period of time, I think for practical purposes you need to have some greater link than just "Wore the same uniform in different decades." Otherwise the judge might find himself unable to try anyone! At any rate, there is no indication that the judge acted improperly.
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Here's an interesting thing I noticed when scrolling back up to find the last name of the plaintiff. In the quoted material, he is identified by his full name once and, thereafter, is identified by his first name ("Mike") 14 times, and his last name only once (and with his title, "Sgt." affixed). The defendant is identified by his full name twice, his last name alone 8 times (never with any title affixed), and never by his first name alone.
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Not surprising. BlackFive is a pretty popular MilBlog (Black 5 being the call-sign of a company XO), the story was brought to attention in the form of a submission by a reader who knew the Marine in question personally, as opposed to by BlackFive himself. Much of it is just copy/paste from the submitter, who was physically present for many of the proceedings.
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