Reply #31: This could get strange...........

[Judi Lynn]

From the Times article:

Just a week after the hearing, on May 3, the judge, Maj. Dewayne McOsker Jr., ruled that there was enough evidence to proceed. He cited a CD-ROM containing photographs and videos taken inside the prison showing detainees being abused and humiliated, along with written statements from four of the other six guards implicated in the scandal.

"I believe there is enough credible evidence to establish reasonable grounds" that Graner is guilty, McOsker concluded.

Eugene R. Fidell, president of the National Institute of Military Justice, said no soldier is allowed to invoke his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination unless he knows his testimony would leave him open to criminal charges.

"You can't assert it unless you have a belief that there is some criminal exposure," he said. "That's why people do it."
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Thanks a lot, Scairp. Very interesting.