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.President Obama needs to learn to show some speech discipline.
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.
BZ to Commander Fulton for having the guts to issue such a ruling.
Undue command influence is pernicious and this president has shown a repeated failure to restrain himself from commenting on things best left to the judiciary. However, he seems to have a never-ending need to pander to various interest groups.
CMDR Fulton's next FITREP will be interesting, don't you think?
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ReplyDeleteHussein and Holder condemned George Zimmerman in the same manner with the full vitriol of the national media behind them..
ReplyDeleteJust because the CDR mentioned something any 1/c Midshipman could tell you, after Intro to UCMJ.......
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