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Jim Lynch August 9th, 2007 2:35 pm

Something that makes sense.

The Marine Corps has dropped all charges against a captain accused of failing to investigate the deaths of 24 civilians and another Marine accused in some of the killings, the Corps announced Thursday.

Capt. Randy W. Stone, 35, a battalion lawyer from Dunkirk, Md., was one of four officers charged with failing to adequately probe the killings.

[...]

The Corps also announced that charges had been dismissed against Lance Cpl. Justin Sharratt, who was accused of murdering three brothers in the assault that followed a deadly roadside bombing of U.S. troops.

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Ware said prosecution of Sharratt could set a “dangerous precedent that … may encourage others to bear false witness against Marines as a tactic to erode public support of the Marine Corps and its mission in Iraq.”

“Even more dangerous is the potential that a Marine may hesitate at the critical moment when facing the enemy,” Ware said.

Finally.

UPDATE: I’ve gone back and highlighted those two paragraphs. Those words are a sane, honest analysis of the consequenses of pursuing the charges further. Looking back in AP article, I also want to point out this.

“The government version is unsupported by independent evidence,” Ware wrote. “To believe the government version of facts is to disregard clear and convincing evidence to the contrary.”

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