{"id":146735,"date":"2023-09-02T10:40:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=146735"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:40:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:40:34","slug":"green-beret-veteran-learns-about-his-false-arrest-record-related-to-an-army-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=146735","title":{"rendered":"Green Beret veteran learns about his false arrest record related to an Army investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The investigation related to the killing of Staff Sergeant Logan Melgar brought Sergeant First Class Jamie Morris’s name up. Others in the incident claimed that Morris approved of the hazing, but Morris said he provided no such approval. These claims of “hazing approval” were advanced in an effort to get leniency. Although Morris was not charged or tried for the death, the fact that the Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) interviewed him finally caught up to him.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The investigation was kept quiet for months. Finally, in November 2018, Matthews, DeDolph, Madera-Rodriguez and Maxwell were charged with murder, involuntary manslaughter, conspiracy, hazing, obstruction of justice and more.<\/p>\n

Morris was not implicated in the case until May 2019 when Matthews pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit assault, unlawful entry, obstruction of justice and violating a general order by committing hazing.<\/p>\n

Matthews testified that he told DeDolph to get approval for the hazing. He said DeDolph woke Morris up and that Morris gave permission before going back to sleep, The Washington Post reported. Morris said that never happened, and the Post noted that the allegation against Morris had not appeared in hundreds of pages of court filings before that point.<\/p>\n

“Anybody with half a brain” could see that Matthews was making a last-ditch attempt to save his own skin, Addicott said. “Not all liars are murderers, but all murderers are liars,” the retired Army lieutenant colonel and judge advocate added.<\/p>\n

During his own plea deal, DeDolph denied asking Morris for permission for the hazing and said Morris had no involvement in the incident, Addicott said. DeDolph’s attorney, Timothy Parlatore, declined to comment on Morris’ situation directly since his own client is awaiting resentencing after a military appeals court found prosecutors failed to disclose that Matthews, who testified against DeDolph, asked for clemency in exchange for his testimony.<\/p>\n

“Logan Melgar’s death was an unfortunate tragedy, but the efforts by prosecutors to inflate that tragedy and add additional fabricated ‘facts’ do not bring justice, they only compound the tragedy,” Parlatore told Fox News in an email.<\/p>\n

Later, Marine Staff Sgt. Kevin Maxwell repeated the allegation that the men asked Morris for permission and received it. But his story differed from Matthews’ in that he said the men planned to record Melgar being sexually assaulted too.<\/p>\n

Maxwell pleaded guilty to numerous charges including negligent homicide, conspiracy to commit assault and hazing. But he was never charged with anything related to sexual assault.<\/p>\n

The plea deal allegations finally signaled to Morris that he had something to worry about, but he had no idea how serious it was. Two years after Melgar’s death, the Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) finally asked Morris to come in for questioning.<\/p>\n

Agents fingerprinted him, took a DNA swab from his cheek and took his photo.<\/p>\n

“Is this a mug shot?” Morris recalled asking, mostly joking.<\/p>\n

“No, this is not a mug shot. This is just part of the process,” he said the agent responded.<\/p>\n

That was the last he heard about it for the next two years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News provides additional details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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