| Haytham, Try this!!!! If you give me the go - I'll post it!!!! M Haytham Faraj Wins Full Acquittal in Sexual Assault Case News Release: Haytham
Faraj, one of the founding partners of the Law Firm of Puckett and Faraj, has
won a complete acquittal of an Army Specialist accused of rape at Fort Irwin,
CA. The three-day court-martial ended
when the military judge found our client “Not Guilty” after a trial during
which the accuser refused to answer many questions in the courtroom. This is yet another case of the Department of Defense’s
over-zealous pursuit of an accusation of rape without first examining all the
evidence and realizing the claim was false.
Certainly, unit commanders must take every accusation seriously and
should investigate to determine if there is probable cause to send the case into
the military justice system. Once in the
military justice system, an Article 32 report either recommends that there is
probable cause, the charges should be changed or it should be dismissed and not
go to a court-martial. It is the prosecutors’
and senior judge advocates’ duty, based on the Article 32 investigating
officer’s recommendation, to advise the commander whether or not the allegation
is substantiated by reliable evidence and whether or not it should be sent to a
court-martial. In this case, the commander ignored the advice of the
Article 32 Hearing report that recommended dismissal of the charges and sent
the case to a court-martial. When an
Article 32 report provides such a strong recommendation for acquittal and the
command sends it to a court-martial, an experienced military criminal defense
attorney, like Haytham Faraj, can in short order, win an full acquittal. On Sep 1, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Haytham Faraj wrote:
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