A laywer for a soldier accused in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal claims that public positions taken by President Bush and military leaders have made it impossible for his client to get a fair trial by a military jury.
Spc. Charles Graner, 36, was expected to use the comments to try to get the charges against him dismissed.
A pretrial hearing for Graner was scheduled Monday.
"I'm asking the court to dismiss on the grounds of unlawful command influences," said Guy Womack, Graner's lawyer. "The president and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have made statements saying my client is guilty and there should be punishment."
Galveston Co. Daily News articleSpc. Charles Graner, 36, was expected to use the comments to try to get the charges against him dismissed.
A pretrial hearing for Graner was scheduled Monday.
"I'm asking the court to dismiss on the grounds of unlawful command influences," said Guy Womack, Graner's lawyer. "The president and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have made statements saying my client is guilty and there should be punishment."
This is the father of Miss Lynndie's baby, and her grinning companion in a number of the "abuse" photos taken at Abu Ghraib. I have no sympathy for his legal plight, but I agree absolutely with his lawyer on this, as a matter of legal point. Dismissal may be the wrong moral or just remedy, but I think it is probably the precedented legal one. And it should work for each of the "seven bad apples" on whom the administration is trying to hang sole responsibility.
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