{"id":28904,"date":"2012-02-28T07:41:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T11:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28904"},"modified":"2012-02-28T10:01:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T14:01:48","slug":"vets-call-for-help-wont-land-him-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28904","title":{"rendered":"Vet’s call for help won’t land him in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"

We discussed Sean Duvall<\/a> whose call to a veterans hotline had him facing charges for manufacturing a crude gun with which he’d planned to kill himself. It seems that he won’t be going to jail for the offense, according to the Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Prosecutors initially argued they had every right to charge Duvall, who admitted to being armed with a gun when he called the hotline from the campus of Virginia Tech. But during a hearing Monday, the government changed course and recommended that Duvall be admitted to counseling overseen by a new Veterans Treatment Court. If completed, the charges, which carried a prison sentence of up to 40 years, would be dropped.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK< the rest of the article celebrates the decision made by DVA Administrator Eric Shinseki's son-in-law, Timothy Heaphy, the prosecutor, but the fact remains that a supposedly private phone call to a helpline resulted in an arrest in the first place.\n\nHeaphy claimed that he didn't factor in the fact that Duvall was a veteran, even though Duvall spent a week in treatment before he was arrested by the Federal prosecutor while he was in a veterans' treatment facility. You'd think the son-in-law of the guy who is the number one veteran advocate would indeed take the man's veteran status into account. Well, that's the way I see it.\n\nI don't think there will be a flood of calls to the veterans' hotlines for immediate help if veterans have to clear the immediate area of anything that might get them arrested.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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