{"id":40397,"date":"2014-03-17T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40397"},"modified":"2014-03-16T18:35:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T22:35:29","slug":"sinclair-walks-on-sexual-assault-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40397","title":{"rendered":"Sinclair walks on sexual assault charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wat sends us a link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/17\/us\/army-general-in-sexual-assault-case-to-plead-guilty-to-lesser-charges.html?_r=1\">New York Times<\/a> which reports that Brigadier General Jeffrey A. Sinclair will plead guilty to lesser charges, disobeying a commander\u2019s order not to contact his mistress, using demeaning language to refer to female officers and using a curse word when confronted about that conduct, and misusing his government travel charge card, but he skates on the sexual assault charges. Yeah, I know, none of us saw that coming, right?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new guilty pleas&#8230;would end an embarrassing two-year case against one of the military\u2019s rising stars that was derailed this year after prosecutors concluded that their chief witness, a captain who was the general\u2019s mistress, may have lied under oath at a pretrial hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The pleas could still set up a showdown. Defense lawyers say military prosecutors may call the captain \u2014 as well as her parents, who are from Nebraska \u2014 as witnesses at a sentencing hearing this week, in an effort to persuade the military judge to impose tougher punishment on General Sinclair.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, the deal was offered because the chief witness against Sinclair may have lied to prosecutors. They claim there were discrepancies in her statements to them. The judge, Colonel James Pohl (the Guantanamo judge), will set the sentence, but the deal includes caps to Sinclair&#8217;s punishments. Defense attorneys said that Sinclair has agreed that he will retire as a Lieutenant Colonel, two steps down from his current rank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wat sends us a link from the New York Times which reports that Brigadier General Jeffrey &hellip; <a title=\"Sinclair walks on sexual assault charge\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40397\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sinclair walks on sexual assault charge<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}