{"id":68874,"date":"2016-11-10T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68874"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:53:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:53:23","slug":"ryan-patrick-morris-phony-soldier-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68874","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Patrick Morris; phony soldier in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68875\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68875\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Ryan-Patrick-Morris-443x333.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Patrick Morris\" width=\"443\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-68875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Ryan-Patrick-Morris-443x333.jpg 443w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Ryan-Patrick-Morris-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Ryan-Patrick-Morris-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Ryan-Patrick-Morris.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ryan Patrick Morris, in Cascade County, Montana, was jmmed up in court on charges of burglary and theft, so he told the judge that he was a wounded soldier, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatfallstribune.com\/story\/news\/local\/2016\/11\/09\/judge-deems-courtroom-lies-act-stolen-valor\/93572238\/\">Great Falls Tribune<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The judge read back Morris\u2019 statements from hearing transcripts, verifying that Morris told the court, \u201cI\u2019ve done seven combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Records show Morris also said he suffered from combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder and had a hip replacement after being injured by an improvised explosive device, or IED.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He wanted special treatment in the veterans&#8217; court. So, the judge told him to meet with the Veterans&#8217; Court coordinator, but the next day he violated his bond by carrying a weapon and consuming alcohol.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Court transcripts show he made an initial appearance after the alleged violations and said, \u201cI\u2019m a seven-time combat vet, special teams operator. I was actually at the Mayor\u2019s Challenge. I\u2019m actually on the outreach team for any homeless vets with Mayor Kelly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Records also show Morris refused to sign a release for the court to obtain an official service record. Morris\u2019 father contacted the Veterans Court coordinator in October to say that his son never served in the military, though he tried several times, and that Morris previously lied about being a veteran in Georgia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, the judge brought the hammer down;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pinski said the disrespect Morris showed the court \u201cpales in comparison\u201d to the disrespect he showed the 441 Montana service members killed in the line of duty since the Korean War.<\/p>\n<p>The judge ordered Morris pay a $500 fine and serve 30 days in jail, though he suspended the jail time and ordered Morris serve 441 hours of community service with a veteran service organization within one year \u2014 one hour for each of the fallen Montanans he mentioned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s all before he even faces those initial burglary charges. He also needs some jail time for that heinous haircut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Patrick Morris, in Cascade County, Montana, was jmmed up in court on charges of burglary &hellip; <a title=\"Ryan Patrick Morris; phony soldier in court\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68874\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ryan Patrick Morris; phony soldier in court<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68874","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=68874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}