{"id":1806,"date":"2007-02-08T08:33:36","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T12:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2007-02-08T08:33:36","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T12:33:36","slug":"lt-watada-court-martial-mistrial-very-likely-outright-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1806","title":{"rendered":"Lt. Watada court martial mistrial &#8216;very likely&#8217; outright victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Courage to Resist, 7 February 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a complex turn of events, the prosecution requested and was granted a mistrial today, over the objections of the defense. In short, after the prosecution presented it&#8217;s case (poorly) to the jury yesterday, the prosecution requested, and was granted a &#8220;do over&#8221; by Judge Head today. However, if this were allowed by the appeals court, what would stop any prosecutor from creating a mistrial in order to win a &#8220;do over?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Watada&#8217;s civilian lawyer Eric Seitz declared, &#8216;The mistrial is very likely to have the consequence of ending this case because double jeopardy may prevent the government from proceeding with a retrial.&#8217; Should the Army proceed with a second trial, Seitz said he would seek dismissal of the charges with prejudice so they could not be refiled.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Col. Robert Resnick of the Judge Advocate General&#8217;s office at Fort Lewis said double jeopardy does not apply in the governments opinion. Judge John Head set a March 12 retrial date, but due to prior commitments of the defense team this would likely be pushed back to May or later, if at all.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Seitz post-mistrial press conference video below. More complete Courage to Resist courtroom report forthcoming.  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.couragetoresist.org\/x\/content\/view\/248\/1\/\">View the video&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courage to Resist, 7 February 2007 In a complex turn of events, the prosecution requested and was granted a mistrial today, over the objections of the defense. In short, after the prosecution presented it&#8217;s case (poorly) to the jury yesterday, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1806\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-t8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}