USMC JAG Lawyers.

via Marine Times.

The Marine Corps commandant’s controversial handling of legal cases tied to the infamous video of scout snipers urinating on Taliban corpses has caught the eye of attorneys involved in another hot-button issue for the military: sexual assault.
Mounting evidence that Gen. Jim Amos and some of his top legal advisers may have deliberately sought to sway the outcome of the war-zone video cases — which would constitute actual unlawful command influence — could be used by attorneys in an attempt to get military courts to take another look at unrelated sexual assault convictions the Corps has secured, said attorneys tracking the issue.
Amos last year cited both the urination video and sexual assaults as embarrassing examples of misbehavior during his “Heritage Brief” tour of Marine bases and stations around the world. He condemned immoral actions by Marines and pressed for aggressive responses when they were discovered.
That tough talk on sexual assault cases led military judges in at least four cases within the past year to rule that the commandant exerted apparent unlawful command influence, according to an active-duty military lawyer involved in some of those cases. The judges determined that Amos’ words potentially violated defendants’ legal rights by tainting jury pools and ensuring convictions before their cases played out in court.
The judges, however, did not find that Amos committed actual unlawful command influence, a more serious finding that could have led to the cases’ dismissal. 

Read the whole thing.  I'm pleasantly surprised that the Marine Times is staying on this.  Amos is hoping that if he keeps his head down he can weather the storm.  I'm not convinced but time will tell.

Well done to the JAG Lawyers that are going after this.

It takes a special kind of guts to go after the top ranking Marine while wearing the uniform. King size balls and ovaries reside in that shop.  I imagine they all wear the morale patch below.