Ex-soldier's rape defense seeks gag order (to include Bush, et al)

[Barrett808]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Defense attorneys for a former Army private accused of raping and killing a young Iraqi woman requested a gag order Tuesday to stop just about everyone involved in the case from discussing it.

Steven D. Green's attorneys said in a motion filed in U.S. District Court that the gag order is necessary because "strong and inflammatory opinion is rampant" in the case.

The attorneys want the order to apply to trial participants, attorneys, civilian or military law enforcement officers or investigators. They also want it to include President Bush, the attorney general, secretary of state and secretary of defense and their subordinates.

Investigators have said Green and other soldiers from the Fort Campbell, Ky.-based 101st Airborne Division plotted to rape a young Iraqi woman after seeing her at a checkpoint in the village of Mahmoudiya. Green is accused of killing three members of the young woman's family members, including her younger sister, then raping and killing her.

In a separate motion, defense lawyers asked that authorities be ordered to "properly maintain and preserve" all potential evidence in the case.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060711/ap_on_re_us/iraq_rape_case_gag_order

Shouldn't the headline say "murder-rape"?

[zreosumgame]

1. sorry, won't help in any case

dumbaya will just issue a 'signing statement' excluding him then will have KKKarl 'leak' irrelevant stuff trying to pain the kid as a cohort of some political enemy or something along those lines.

[maddezmom]

2. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2382256