Congresswoman Jackie Speier: Military justice bungles sex cases
Protect Our Defenders Honorary Chair Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) writes an op-ed for CNN:
After facing a long list of charges including sexual assault, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair agreed to plead guilty this week to much lesser charges in a case involving sexual misconduct in the military — one in which politics may have gotten in the way of justice.
On display was a military legal system, apparently eager to show it was getting tough on sexual misconduct cases, that instead bungled the case.
On Thursday, Sinclair was sentenced. He received a reprimand and has to forfeit some pay. But he got no jail time. His sentence is a mockery of military justice, a slap on the wrist nowhere close to being proportional to his offenses.
