Branum takes another life
James Branum, the guy who calls himself the GI Rights lawyer, has destroyed another life – this time it’s a young soldier by the name of Eric Jasinski.
A Fort Hood soldier who failed to deploy with his unit to Iraq in December 2007 will spend at least 27 days in the Bell County jail.
Spc. Eric Jasinski pled guilty Wednesday to a charge of desertion at his court martial on Fort Hood, said his attorney James Branum.
Branum said mitigating circumstances that included a diagnosis of post traumatic stress syndrome after a tour to Iraq in 2006 made Jasinski decide he would not deploy.
“He was seeing a psychiatrist for his condition and prescribed Zoloft for depression and Trazadone to get to sleep, and they handed him his gun and told him to go back to Iraq,” Branum said.
The sentence is 30 days in jail, 27 days for good behavior, Branum said. He also was reduced in rank to private first class and had pay and benefits docked for two-thirds of one month.
Branum spent the last several months sticking his finger in the Army’s collective eye along with his buddies at Courage to Resist and the socialists at Under the Hood Cafe until the court martial.
Branum’s unbelievably consistent track record of getting jail time for ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of his clients remains unblemished. Now that he has the support of the Under the Hood Cafe, he’ll be putting a lot more in jail unless someone starts helping these Victims Of Branum and get them away from his self-serving legal advice and blind obedience to his anti-war agenda.
Category: Antiwar crowd, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Usual Suspects
Isn’t it possible to get some judge to intervene and have Branum’s law license yanked, or have him brought up on professional misconduct charges?
This guy is giving flawed advice and preying upon naive soldiers. I’d consider his conduct criminal, but I;m only a taxpayer and not a lawyer.
Rather than providing solid legal advice to his clients, and acting on their behalf, he appears to me, in my opinion, to be using these soldiers to advance how personal agenda.
respects,
Lieutenant Colonel Terry Lakin Needs Your Help
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea9JVnck_-E&feature=player_embedded
http://www.safeguardourconstitution.com/
Can we start referring people we want to go to jail to this guy? Maybe we could all chip in and ‘hire’ him as the staff attorney for IVAW.
Without knowing more facts of the case (and I don’t want to know them), Branum actually appears to have performed his duties as a lawyer for his client. Jasinski got a “plea offer” which he took: a guilty plea to (presumably Article 85) Desertion, a sentence of 3 days actual imprisonment, and a reduction in pay and rank that is less than could otherwise be imposed by an Article 15 non-judicial punishment. Also, it will be considered a misdemeanor offense instead of a felony. From a legal perspective, that’s not too shabby.
Otherwise, do not take my e-mail to be an endorsement for Branum, or his scum-sucking clients.
Dear Bdaman – GIVE.UP.THE.BIRTH.CERTIFICATE.CRAP!!!!
Lt. Col. Larkin does not have the right to the orignial birth certificate. This is pure and unadulterated stupidity!!!!!
Stupid birthers. Bob, the fact that this case went that far in the first place is huge sign.
Ya know, back in the day, the military had off limits areas in the civilian world where we were not allowed to go. I think that Under the Hood should be placed on that list for subversion and incitement against good military order. Unfortuantely, the people in charge aren’t interested in such a thing.
THIS IS NOT A LEGAL OPINION…(protecting butt)
Branum is a scum-sucking attention whore whose first loyalty is to his “cause” rather than his client. For that, he should be disbarred. It violates the cannons of ethics. However, it is difficult to disbar someone for being an incompetent moron if his clients do not complain. Unless he does something egregious like lie to a court, it is very difficult for other lawyers to get their complaint taken seriously by the State Bar of Oklahoma which does not mean those with intimate knowledge (i.e. know his clients and the facts and circumstances of his representations) should not try. If you know any of his clients who are disgruntled, then they should file a complaint. Otherwise, there is not much that can be done.
Trooper, they are in this case and it will probably happen soon.
Casey, that would be good, but just so you know, I don’t have anything against the free speech and expression of people, but when it involves trying to actively get soldiers to disobey their oath and contract obligations, that’s just wrong. I know I have stated how I feel about all that stuff many times before, since those that are encouraging such antics don’t pay the price for it. Maybe they wouldn’t be so quick to try and get these soldiers to do this if they were charged with sedition every time a soldier fails to deploy or goes AWOL?
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Trooper, I agree with you completely. If there was even a chance they might get in some sort of trouble, they’d be nowhere around.