{"id":20452,"date":"2010-09-13T16:34:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T20:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20452"},"modified":"2010-09-13T19:48:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T23:48:01","slug":"feds-drop-stolen-valor-case-because-of-judges-rulings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20452","title":{"rendered":"Feds drop Stolen Valor case because of judges’ rulings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prosecutors dropped a Stolen Valor case<\/a> against a Stamford Connecticut man supposedly because of the rulings by 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in California and U.S. District Court in Colorado that the Act is unconstitutional; <\/p>\n

Pace, who was discharged from Army medic training in 2007 for “motivational reasons,” was arrested in April and released on $10,000 bond. He is accused of wearing a U.S. Army uniform while attending paramedic training courses and during other occasions. Several badges and tabs for tactical and medical expertise and service in a war zone were affixed to the uniforms, documents allege.<\/p>\n

The investigation that led to Pace’s arrest began in April 2009 when an Army sergeant at Fort Benning, Ga., found a photo of Pace on the Internet depicting him wearing combat fatigues and Army Ranger markings. The sergeant forwarded the photo to U.S. Department of Defense investigators in New Haven, and they began looking into Pace’s military record and interviewed classmates at a medic training class in Bridgeport.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another Stolen Valor Act criminal who pleaded guilty<\/a> to SVA violations, was fired from his community service sentence at a VA hospital in California thanks to a veterans group who filed a complaint about him with the VA;<\/p>\n

Weber in January pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor violation of the federal Stolen Valor Act. He had worn a dress uniform with the rank of a two-star general and several unearned ribbons to a military gathering in November. He had apparently begun telling tall tales about his military service over several years.<\/p>\n

Weber had served in the Marine Corps as a staff sergeant.<\/p>\n

He was working as a volunteer at the hospital as part of his court-ordered 240 hours of community service. He had worked about 100 hours at the hospital, doing errands for patients and staff.<\/p>\n

The decision to terminate his services was based on a concern that his continued presence could be upsetting to veterans….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s disturbing that the VA had to be told that Weber’s presence was not conducive to good relations with veterans. Seems to me that would be the first thing they would consider after his conviction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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