{"id":88554,"date":"2019-07-02T08:12:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T12:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=88554"},"modified":"2019-07-02T08:12:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T12:12:14","slug":"more-in-military-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88554","title":{"rendered":"More in Military Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Bowe-Bergdahl-e1562068157411.jpg\" alt=\"berghdal\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The Army&#8217;s appeals court is weighing whether to throw out Bowe Bergdahl&#8217;s conviction. <\/em><\/p>\n<h3>The Army is considering overturning Bowe Bergdahl\u2019s sentence<\/h3>\n<p>Attorneys for Bergdahl are appealing his sentence for desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. He was sentenced to pay a $10,000 fine, reduction to E-1, a Dishonorable Discharge and time served.<\/p>\n<p>His attorneys are appealing his trial as unfair due to then Presidential Candidate Trump&#8217;s undue command influence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By: Meghann Myers<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Bowe Bergdahl case went back to court on Thursday, when the Army heard an appeal arguing that President Donald Trump\u2019s comments about a conviction and prison time for the former soldier amounted to undue command influence and interfered with his right to a fair trial.<\/p>\n<p>The Army Court of Criminal Appeals convened a three-judge panel to hear the case, according to the court docket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president has tainted everything,\u201d Eugene Fidell, a Yale Law School lecturer and former Coast Guard judge advocate who represented Berdahl, told the panel, Military.com reported on Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trump weighed in multiple times over the proceedings, tweeting and making public comments that favored his execution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the old days when we were strong and wise, we [would] shoot a guy like that,\u201d he said in 2015, as he campaigned for president.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the trial, Bergdahl\u2019s legal team argued that Trump\u2019s comments had tainted the trial. The judge, Army Col. Jeffrey Nance, declared them mitigating evidence, which can reduce punishment in sentencing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m splitting hairs here, but in order to exert undue command influence, shouldn&#8217;t one have to actually be in command?<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2019\/07\/01\/the-army-is-considering-overturning-bowe-bergdahls-sentence\/?utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=EBB%2007.02.19&#038;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Military%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief\">Army Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army&#8217;s appeals court is weighing whether to throw out Bowe Bergdahl&#8217;s conviction. The Army is &hellip; <a title=\"More in Military Justice\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88554\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More in Military Justice<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,185,15,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-crime","category-legal","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88554","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88555,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88554\/revisions\/88555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}