When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.“ - Benjamin Franklin.
“When people get used to preferential treatment equal treatment seems like discrimination.” - Thomas Sowell
Because of that, the ones who pled out got off too easily. They should be doing more than a year. People often get sentenced to 12 for misdemeanor crimes.Within minutes of Melgar’s death, the four men hatched a plan to cover up the crime and proceeded to lie to multiple investigators over the next few weeks.
Last edited by Tahuyaman; 01-18-2021 at 12:51 AM.
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.“ - Benjamin Franklin.
“When people get used to preferential treatment equal treatment seems like discrimination.” - Thomas Sowell
They're all probably going to get off too easily, unfortunately.
“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.” - Barry Goldwater
A 10 year sentence on a guilty plea for 22 years suggests the judge thought that this Seal's involvement was more than hazing.
With the nature of the military justice system, I would not be surprised if this judge was also the judge on the earlier two guilty pleas that got 1 year in jail and a bad conduct discharge.
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This guy was Seal Team 6.
SEAL sentenced in Green Beret’s death has conviction overturned
A Navy SEAL sentenced to 10 years for involuntary manslaughter in the asphyxiation death of a Green Beret has had his conviction set aside after a military appellate court found he was denied the chance to cross-examine a “key government witness” ― one of the other defendants in the case.
Special Warfare Operator Chief Tony E. Dedolph was sentenced in January 2021 at a military hearing in Norfolk, Virginia, after pleading guilty to charges that also included conspiracy to commit assault and obstruct justice, violation of a lawful general order and obstruction of justice in the death of Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar.
Among the four special operations troops convicted in what has been called a hazing episode gone horribly wrong in U.S. Embassy housing in Bamako, Mali, in 2017, Dedolph’s sentence was by far the most severe. Now, he’ll likely receive a rehearing that could change the outcome of his case.
At issue is the testimony of Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Kevin Maxwell, a Marine Raider who pleaded guilty to charges including negligent homicide and making false official statements in June 2019 and received a four-year sentence.
According to an appellate decision released Thursday from the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Military Appeals, Maxwell, the only participant in the deadly hazing incident to testify for the prosecution in Dedolph’s case, had submitted a request for clemency, or lenience in his sentence, but did not inform Dedolph or his attorneys.
“At [Dedolph’s] sentencing hearing, [Maxwell] testified on behalf of the Government,” the appellate decision, which uses pseudonyms, states. “He provided testimony describing the assault on [Melgar], to include a detailed account of the methods [Dedolph] used to render [Melgar] unconscious. After the trial, the Government endorsed [Maxwell’s] request for clemency and the convening authority reduced [Maxwell’s] confinement from four years to three years.”
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