{"id":75856,"date":"2017-11-09T11:30:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T16:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75856"},"modified":"2017-11-10T08:44:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T13:44:56","slug":"appeals-court-overturns-sniper-urinator-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75856","title":{"rendered":"Appeals Court overturns sniper-urinator case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=55816\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55816\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/JamesAmos-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/JamesAmos-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/JamesAmos-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/JamesAmos.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2017\/11\/09\/court-overturns-conviction-of-marine-urinated-taliban-corpses.html\">Military.com<\/a>, the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals overturned the December 2012 conviction of Marine Corps sniper Staff Sergeant Joseph Chamblin. Chamblin was found guilty of desecrating enemy corpses with urine;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even though Chamblin pleaded guilty and got a relatively light sentence under a pretrial agreement, the appeals court found evidence of unlawful command influence that was never cured or eradicated in the case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The highest-ranking officer in the Marine Corps [Marine Corps commandant Jim Amos] told [then-Lt. Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, appointed by Amos as the oversight authority for the sniper cases] that the appellant and his co-accused should be &#8216;crushed,&#8217; &#8221; the court wrote. &#8220;This is an unusually flagrant example of UCI. We find that UCI this direct, and occurring at this level, is highly corrosive to public trust in this proceeding.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Marine Corps can still re-prosecute the case, but without Amos&#8217; undue influence, that doesn&#8217;t seem likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Military.com, the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals overturned the December 2012 conviction of &hellip; <a title=\"Appeals Court overturns sniper-urinator case\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75856\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Appeals Court overturns sniper-urinator case<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75856","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=75856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}