My Story

Foreword

It’s the last week of February and my court martial and 6 months of pre-trial confinement ordeal was finally over.  My verdict and sentence had been given and I could relax psychologically. This story will be told from the day of my sentencing until I am freed from incarceration 4 years later.  My court martial trial lasted 3 days.  I was an enlisted with a bachelor’s degree and had chosen an all officer panel to decide my fate.  Going judge alone with a liberal known judge would have been detrimental for my life. If I had not worked for attorneys for 3 years, I would have been very ignorant of the law and had been lied to.  I guarantee it! Prosecution and Defense attorneys shared and disclosed privileged information.  Attorney client privilege?  What is that?  If you are an officer then you are given the Golden Parachute.  Discovery is discovery but exculpatory discovery seemed to be a common practice to be withheld to help the government, so it wouldn’t look bad (always political). Lots of inmates complained of this and many were fighting for lighter sentences or cases to be overturned. Military men and women are to uphold and protect democracy, but not allowed to practice it.  “untold silent rule.”