July 10th, 2009
equated military tribunals/courts martial boards with kangaroo courts.
This is NOT the first time this subject has come up on the news and I am sick
of hearing it.
During my military service, I sat on courts martial boards.
The UCMJ, Uniform Code of Military Justice, specifies crimes which may be tried
and procedure.
It is NOT a kangaroo court.
The board is comprised of 7 members, all officers who hear the cases and are
instructed carefully by the residing judge.
There is a prosecutor and a defense attorney representing the defendant.
The defendant may be represented by a military lawyer or private representation if he/she can
afford it.
There was NOTHING remotely kangaroo about any of it.
If anything I feel someone receives a more honest trial than a jury system, which exists throughout
our nation today, where someone like Simpson can walk away from a horrific murder.
And Simpson is not the only example of the so called jury system.
My sister has been called several times and the last time wound up as the
foreperson. She said it was a nightmare to just keep the members attentive to business once they began to deliberate. They could not recall details of the trial and had not even bothered to take notes.
If we are going to sling mud about trials, then let's sling it where it belongs.
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