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United States v. Lakin liveblog V
The court-martial of convicted Army doctor LTC Terry Lakin resumes today. First off is a session held outside the presence of the members between the judge and counsel for both sides, with the accused...
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United States v. Lakin liveblogging, Day Three wrap
LTC Lakin, convicted on all charges and specifications by a general court-martial, has been sentenced. The sentence is a dismissal, confinement for six months, and forfeiture of all pay and allowances....
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Lakin court-martial finale, Part I
Today’s proceedings began with an Article 39(a) session, during which the prosecution offered a transcript of portions of the providence inquiry for its case in rebuttal. The excerpts concerned LTC...
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Lakin court-martial finale, Part II
CPT O’Beirne’s sentencing argument for the government was masterful. The argument lasted 20 minutes and was delivered in a low-key, earnest manner. My hasty notes won’t do it full justice. Perhaps...
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Lakin court-martial finale, Part III
Neal Puckett’s sentencing argument lasted about 25 minutes. The argument painted LTC Lakin as naive and obsessed. It centered on a metaphor in which Mr. Jensen was a quack doctor who convinced Lakin...
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Lakin court-martial finale, -30-
The members’ sentencing deliberations lasted a surprisingly long time. Deliberations started at 1057 and the sentence was announced at 1545. Removing times when the court was in recess, the members...
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Okay, one more Lakin post
BadFiction links to this press release from Neal Puckett’s law firm, which explains some of the tactical thinking behind the defense’s sentencing case. It includes the interesting revelation that the...
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LTC Lakin is apparently confined at new Midwest Joint Regional Correctional...
WorldNetDaily has posted this report about LTC Lakin’s supporters’ campaign to obtain clemency for him. The article provides a mailing address for supporters to send letters, cards, and money orders...
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Top 10 military justice stories of 2010–#9: United States v. Lakin
There was disagreement at the CAAFlog confab as to whether the case of United States v. Lakin should make the top-10 list. After all, it is a dog-bites-man story. The military justice system...
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United States v. Lakin aftermath
The Fogbow has links to a couple of new items relevant to the Lakin case. First, there’s this post on the Puckett & Faraj website by LTC Lakin’s civilian defense counsel, Neal Puckett, further...
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Puckett critic disrupts U.S. House of Representatives
One of the challenges faced by the defense trial team in United States v. Lakin was dealing with the accused’s motivation: an explicit, overt, and protracted public challenge to the eligibility of the...
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LTC Lakin’s “prison diaries”
The Terry Lakin Action Fund has posted a number of “prison diaries” in which LTC Lakin tracks his day-to-day activities and attitudes during his confinement at Fort Leavenworth’s brand-new new Midwest...
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Lakin update
I’m informed that the CA acted on LTC Lakin’s case, approving the court-martial’s results as adjudged. I’ll post more info as it becomes available.
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Confirmation that CA has approved LTC Lakin court-martial results
I’m informed that the CA acted on LTC Lakin’s case, approving the court-martial’s results, on 7 April. Michelle McCluer provides this Army Times link to an AP story quoting an Army spokesperson...
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Terry Lakin Action Fund announces welcome home rally at BWI
The Terry Lakin Action Fund has posted a notice here indicating that LTC Lakin will be flying into BWI airport the morning of Saturday, 14 May. A rally in support of him is planned at the airport.
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BREAKING NEWS: President Obama is an American
Per CNN, newly released documents confirm what every other document has already shown — that President Barack Obama was born in the United States on August 4, 1961.
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A Comment About Traffic and Birthers
For all those offering to pay us to stop covering the Lakin and birther issue, I give you these stats: We have 1,750 visits by 1:00 pm–only happened 5 times before, all during the Lakin trial. My post...
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Terry Lakin Action Fund’s response to today’s developments
Thanks to Rob M for calling our attention to the Terry Lakin Action Fund’s response to President Obama’s release of another birth record today. The Action Fund’s response, however, advances a faulty...
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Murder Trials Galore and More
Here is a Fayetteville Observer report about a delay in the court-martial of SPC Nicholas Bailey to enable defense co0unsel to prepare their experts. SPC Bailey was charged with murder after allegedly...
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LTC Lakin released from confinement; considers waiving appeal; says if...
LTC Lakin was released from confinement on Friday. He has since given at least two interviews, this one with KMBC and this one with the Terry Lakin Action Fund Radio Hour. In the Terry Lakin Action...
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Corsi’s Lakin lie
On Tuesday, bookstores received copies of Jerome Corsi’s book with the OBE title, “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” The book has a 3/4 page synopsis of LTC Lakin’s case, which appears on page 289....
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BREAKING NEWS: LTC Lakin Withdraws His Appeal From Art. 66 Review
We have it on good information that LTC Lakin has apparently withdrawn his appeal from review by the Army Court of Criminal Appeals. LTC Lakin hinted at waiving his appeal when released from...
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ACCA grants LTC Lakin’s motion to withdraw his case from appellate review...
Here is a copy of ACCA’s 28 July order granting LTC Lakin’s motion to withdraw his case from appellate review. A review of the court-martial now must be conducted by a judge advocate pursuant to Rule...
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MilJus Crazies Update
“Five days in December at Ft. Meade,” that appears to be the schedule for bringing out the crazies to MilJus events, see LTC Lakin trial here, and now the PFC Bradley manning Art. 32 hearing schedule...
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Former LTC Terrence Lakin Denied Medical License
Here and here are results of former LTC Terrence Lakin’s application for a Kansas medical license. The KS Board in denying his medical license stated: Applicant’s refusal to deploy to Afghanistan to...
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Lakinista website posts obviously false claims
When the subhead of your website’s logo is “The Truth Matters,” you really ought not post obvious falsehoods. Consider this from the Lakinista website’s “COUNTDOWN to Court-Martial” page: This week,...
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Article provides details of LTC Lakin’s brother’s letters to POTUS
Here’s a rather strange article from the Greeley Gazette, providing details about LTC Lakin’s brother’s efforts on his behalf, including a letter to President Obama in which he suggested that the...
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LTC Lakin’s lawyer reportedly says LTC Lakin is certain to be convicted...
Thanks to Big Guy for pointing us to this WorldNetDaily article in which Neal Puckett is quoted as stating that LTC Lakin is certain to be convicted of disobeying orders. As a fan of the original Star...
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Lakinista web site blames McCain 2008 lawyer for deleting Wikipedia post on...
There’s been quite a bit of buzz in birther circles recently about a post on Wikipedia about LTC Lakin that was taken down almost as soon as it went up, only to have some of its contents reappear under...
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CAAFlog Radio
Here is our fearless leader’s interview about the Lakin case last night on radio. Minute 3:55 for start of our fearless leader’s interview with Reality Check Radio about the LTC Lakin case. He...
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Alan Keyes tries to raise money with LTC Lakin family photo
As thefogbow.com points out, Dr. Alan Keyes has posted this appeal for money, along with a Lakin family photo and reference to LTC Lakin’s “three small children.” But, oddly, it doesn’t appear that...
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LTC Lakin to plead not guilty, says counsel
We now have confirmation from LTC Lakin’s counsel, Neal Puckett, that the accused will plead not guilty when his court-martial convenes next week. Mr. Puckett revealed the intended plea in an interview...
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Protest planned to support LTC Lakin
The Lakinista website safeguardourconstitution.com has posted this information about a protest planned near Fort Meade tomorrow — though, oddly enough, the information doesn’t appear to include a time...
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United States v. Lakin liveblog
Trial in the Lakin court-martial is scheduled to begin on 14 December 2010 at 0900. Colonel Sullivan will be in attendance at Fort Meade and will provide information as events warrant. His dispatches...
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United States v. Lakin liveblog II
We have fresh information from Colonel Sullivan, on site at the Lakin court-martial at Fort Meade, Maryland. LTC Lakin pled guilty to all four of the Article 92 specifications alleged in Charge II...
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United States v. Lakin liveblogging, Day One wrap
The prosecution has now rested and the court-martial is in recess until tomorrow. Some highlights from today: According to LTC Lakin, his former counsel, Paul Rolf Jensen, told him that although...
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Lakin court-martial day one, part I
Judge Mathews the Greatest has provided an outstanding play-by-play of today’s events. I’ll use this post to provide a bit of color commentary. The case is being tried in the magistrate’s courtroom at...
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Lakin court-martial day one, part II
Judge Lind was firmly in control of the courtroom throughout the proceedings. She exuded judicial demeanor. The trial counsel suggested a substantial amount of additional Care inquiry questions, and...
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Lakin court-martial day one, part III
During COL Roberts’ cross-examination, Mr. Puckett hammered the by-now familiar questions: “Did you order him to be onboard flight 1123 from BWI?” A: “I did not.” Q. “Did you direct anyone else to...
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Erstwhile Lakinista website distances itself from his defense
The former official Lakinista website, safeguardourconstitution.com, has post this announcement, conceding that his case will not result in discovery of documents concerning President Obama’s...
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United States v. Lakin liveblog III
Colonel Sullivan is en route to Fort Meade for this morning’s resumption of the Lakin court-martial. Trial is scheduled to start again at 0900. The prosecution has rested; next up is the defense. Mr....
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United States v. Lakin liveblog IV
LTC Lakin now stands convicted of one specification of missing movement in violation of Article 87, UCMJ, and three specifications of failure to obey lawful orders in violation of Article 92....
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United States v. Lakin liveblogging, Day Two wrap
The defense and prosecution have now rested their sentencing cases in the Lakin court-martial. The prosecution finished its case by playing an interview with LTC Lakin on the Barry Farber show, in...
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Lakin court-martial day two, Part I
Today’s proceeding began by the defense resting on the merits of the missing movement offense without presenting any evidence. During the Article 39(a) session that followed, Judge Lind confirmed with...
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Lakin court-martial day two, Part II
Immediately after findings, without taking a break, the case moved into the government’s sentencing case. The government began its sentencing case by projecting a giant version of LTC Lakin’s famous “I...
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Lakin court-martial day two, Part III
MAJ Dobson was the government’s second sentencing witness. While the government elicited testimony from him about how he and his unit were harmed by LTC Lakin’s failure to deploy, his testimony didn’t...
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Lakin court-martial day two, Part IV
The defense’s case in extenuation and mitigation began with the testimony of COL Willoughbee, who provided very helpful testimony for the defense that was then turned against LTC Lakin during...
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Lakin court-martial day two, Part V
LTC Lakin delivered his unsworn statement in question-and-answer format while sitting on the witness stand. It would last for more than an hour. He would ultimately cry, with Neal Puckett repeatedly...
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Lakin court-martial day two, Part VI
The unsworn statement then moved into a discussion of LTC Lakin’s violation of COL Roberts’ orders to report to his office. LTC Lakin seemed genuinely remorseful concerning those offenses. He said...
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