{"id":58024,"date":"2015-02-02T10:42:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T15:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58024"},"modified":"2015-02-02T11:20:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T16:20:54","slug":"revisiting-the-erik-j-burris-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58024","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting the Erik J. Burris case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57900\">We wrote about Major Burris<\/a>, a former sexual assault prosecutor for the Army, a few weeks ago when he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for rape. Our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarycorruption.com\/burris.htm\">MilitaryCorruption.com<\/a>, however, had a different take on the case. They sent us the results of the Article 32 investigating officer&#8217;s report, which I present below;<\/p>\n<p  style=\" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\">   <a title=\"View Investigating Officer&#x27;s Report- US v Burris on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/254466182\/Investigating-Officer-s-Report-US-v-Burris\"  style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" >Investigating Officer&#x27;s Report- US v Burris<\/a> by <a title=\"View JonnLilyea's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/jonn9lilyea\"  style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" >JonnLilyea<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/254466182\/content?start_page=1&#038;view_mode=scroll&#038;access_key=key-14IyfXTfjJgg0kKsa4tL&#038;show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_82615\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The investigating officer&#8217;s name was LTC Jessica Halling and basically she determined that Burris&#8217; ex-wife, the person preferring the rape charges against Major Burris wasn&#8217;t credible and that the Army should just offer the Major an Article 15 and a General Officer Memorandum of Reprimand. Obviously, the Army disagreed and went with a court martial. <\/p>\n<p>Military Corruption says they made that decision because he made the statement in open court that, as a prosecutor, he was pressured by his highers to make sexual assault cases when little evidence against the accused existed. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s true or not, but obviously, they had something against him to go against the investigating officer&#8217;s recommendations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote about Major Burris, a former sexual assault prosecutor for the Army, a few weeks &hellip; <a title=\"Revisiting the Erik J. Burris case\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58024\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Revisiting the Erik J. Burris case<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58024","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=58024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}