Murder

Not long ago a soldier allegedly killed his wife.  The trials got some press when four trials later the soldier was released to the Army.  He had gotten four miss trials over the four years and was accused of killing his wife.  Apparently the local prosecutor and local forensics criminalist were incompetent.

I saw the trial on TV and believed he was guilty, but four trials!  This is nonsense, the prosecutor should have been fired and the forensics people should have gone on trial for their jobs.  Or maybe there was no evidence?

When the man was released the Army picked him up and eight days later, 8 days later, he was found guilty by a courts martial and sentenced.   Apparently, the military forensics found a microscopic piece of glass on his jacket and it was found to match the glass on the broken window in question.  This one piece of evidence was enough to send him to jail for life.

Having been around the lab for a life time and having a wife that is a medical technologist and having insight into how labs work, I can say this is bullshit!  Unless the microscopic piece of glass exactcly fit a puzzle of the window glass that is no evidence at all.  A microscopic piece of glass could fall on anyones' jacket.

The window in the front door at the scene, was broken.  There is no evidence of who broke it, it could have been anybody.  My supposition is that a killer would have use his dominate hand to break the glass, and to avoid any cuts he could have pulled his hand into the sleeve.  The hole in the window would then be consistent with a man's fist and the microscopic pieces of glass would have been numerous.  Perhaps the sleve would have been cut.  The glass would then be found on the dominate hand.

The door had a multi glass window out in that farm, the one next to the door knob is the one in question.  The knob is on the left, the window once broken allows the soldier to put his hand in and open the door from the inside.  Since it was broken into, the glass ended up on the floor, the puzzle.  If the evidence was walked on then it was inadmissable, a piece of glass could have been brought in on one of those shoes, if the hole was two small for a hand that presents the problem of entry.

Nevertheless it took the Army 8 days to find him guilty.  Bullshit!  If the military rules of evidence are not up to standard, they should not be the legal tool for sending anyone to prison.  But I suspect Command and I suspect that the juror was coerced, that the lab was coerced.  I say this because I have spend many years in the military and have seen the military operate.  We're talking about officers who cheat on their school work.

Now this is tempering with evidence, obstruction of justice, perjury, and who knows what else.

This is why command should not be allowed to deal with rape .... to many assholes.