Eugene Fidell
Eugene Fidell
Eugene R. Fidellis an American lawyer specializing in military law. He is currently Senior Research Scholar in Law and Florence Rogatz Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School...
conduct convicted gets heads highly people soldier
I think people around the world are going to be scratching their heads at that sentence. The conduct of which this soldier was convicted is highly offensive, and if this is all one gets it's not impunity, but it's getting real close.
however itself rule
This is in itself an important reaffirmation of the rule of law, however it comes out.
drill grabbing hands happened hitting lay recruit supposed
Basically, you're not supposed to lay your hands on a recruit. You don't really want to have drill instructors grabbing a recruit by the collar, which is what happened here, and you don't want to have them hitting them with elbows.
criminal earlier gaps major
It does look like there were some major gaps in the earlier investigations, which were not criminal investigations incidentally.
general recall
I can't recall a four-star general ever being called on as a witness.