court-martial

At his court-martial, Calley’s attorney echoed the defense of top Nazis at their trials in Nuremberg following World War II: He was only following orders.

The piece opens on the court-martial of a brutal sergeant who was Private Chen’s chief antagonist.

The case could then move to a court-martial, if it’s determined that there’s sufficient evidence of the charges.

Richmond was 20 when an Army court-martial panel convicted him of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced him to three years in prison for killing the handcuffed Iraqi civilian near Taal Al Jai in February 2004.

“When we got back to Ubon, they didn’t know whether to court-martial me or pin a medal on my chest,” he recalled in an interview with an Air Force publication in 1996.