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(56,582 posts) Sat Aug 24, 2013, 03:07 AM Aug 2013

Is there any reason so many high-profile courts martial are ending right now?

Bales, Manning, Hasan... I guess that's just three, but it seems like a lot to happen over the course of a couple of days. It's not like SCOTUS which has to rule on the whole docket all at once.

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Is there any reason so many high-profile courts martial are ending right now? (Original Post) Recursion Aug 2013 OP

Well... Tx4obama Aug 2013 #1

Tx4obama

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1. Well...

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Sat Aug 24, 2013, 03:16 AM

Aug 2013

Bales agreed to a plea deal...

On May 29, 2013, it was announced that Bales would plead guilty and describe the events of the March 11, 2012 in exchange for taking the death penalty off thetable.[39] On June 5, Bales plead guilty in a plea deal to 16 counts of murder and six counts of assault and attempted murder. ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bales

And Nidal Hasan's trial would have lasted much longer if he had lawyers instead of representing himself.

During the first day of the trial on August 6, Hasan—who was representing himself— admitted that he was the gunman during the Fort Hood shootings in 2009 and stated that the evidence would show that he was the shooter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidal_Hasan

I think that it's just a coincidence that they all wrapped up around the same time.

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