President Trump to intervene in military court martial cases

President Donald Trump is expected to act on two court-martial cases that involved U.S. troops accused of war crimes. The two cases involve Former 1st Lt. Clint Lorance, who is serving a 19-year sentence, for murder, in Fort Leavenworth’s military prison. He ordered, in 2012, an enlisted soldier to fire on supposedly unarmed Afghan motorcyclists. […]

US Army officer convicted of murdering Afghan civilians to receive an appeal

Having previously gotten nowhere with their appeals to the military, the attorneys for former Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorance will soon have their appeal heard by a civilian federal court in Kansas. Lorance was convicted by a military court-martial of murdering two unarmed Afghan civilians on July 2, 2012. Lorance’s platoon, part of the 82nd […]