среда, 14 марта 2012 г.

Defense: Marine Corps helped Haditha prosecution

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — Defense lawyers for a Marine whose squad killed 24 Iraqis in Haditha alleged Tuesday that the Marine Corps unfairly allowed the prosecution's team of military lawyers to remain on active duty, but denied the same request for the defense.

The Marine Corps refused to postpone the retirement in 2008 of former Marine Haytham Faraj and retired Marine Lt. Col. Colby Vokey as the case dragged on for five years. They continued to represent Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich as a civilian lawyers but say they were limited in their abilities.

"We just don't have the resources that we had when we were in uniform," Faraj told a military judge at Camp …

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