It’s time for yet another update on that “fine general”, BG Jeffrey A. Sinclair.<\/p>\n
You remember Sinclair, right – that Army BG accused of various types of\u00a0 . . . interesting conduct<\/a> while deployed to Afghanistan?\u00a0 The same guy whose defense team (or someone else) apparently set up a PR web site to tell his side of the story<\/a> – a site which IMO stops just short of admitting many if not virtually all of the accusations against him?<\/p>\n Recently, it appears Sinclair’s current defense team was trying to convince the military judge\u00a0essentially to allow a trial by multiple juries. The defense’s rationale was a fear that a single court-martial panel might be “overwhelmed” while considering many different charges involving multiple accusers.\u00a0 I’m not sure I buy that; my guess is that they were angling for some oddball grounds for appeal if he’s convicted.<\/p>\n In any case, the military judge didn’t buy it.\u00a0 Sinclair will be tried by a single court-martial panel on all charges<\/a>.\u00a0 The judge observed that the members of his court-martial panel – which will apparently consist of other GOs – would be “highly educated and likely to follow instructions”.<\/p>\n Gee – ya think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"