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| May 3, 2020


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Court Overturns Marine’s Attempted Manslaughter Conviction in Barracks Room Knife Fight

By Hope Hodge Seck
A Marine sentenced to 18 months’ confinement and a bad-conduct discharge after a barracks confrontation turned bloody may now end up free, after a military appeals court determined that the presiding judge wrongly instructed jury members in the case.

Pfc. Mickey W. Johnson, an aircraft maintainer stationed at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, was convicted on charges including attempted manslaughter in April 2018. After just three weeks living with his roommate, identified in court documents as Lance Cpl. V, the tension between the two was toxic and threats were common.

But even though a showdown one evening devolved into a knife fight that sent Lance Cpl. V to the hospital, the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Military Appeals determined earlier this month that it could have begun as justifiable self-defense — a point that may not have been made effectively ahead of deliberations on the case.

The full-court published decision, released April 15 and delivered by Senior Judge Navy Capt. Arthur Gaston, found that the judge should have told members that Johnson was within his rights to display knives in an attempt to deter aggression.

The judges pointed out the size difference between the two Marines: Johnson was 5 feet 9 inches and weighed 140 pounds, while Lance Cpl. V was 6 feet 5 inches and 200 pounds.

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Read the rest here: Military.com

“The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed;…” — Thomas Jefferson to Justice John Cartwright, 1824. ME 16:45.

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26Limabeans

M1 Carbine. Fun gun. You can get a three round
burst just by lossening your grip on the forestock.
Then the firing pin breaks.

The girl in the photo is showing excellent form…..

Docduracoat

That is a very pretty young woman in that photo!
Mour ppfotos , please!

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Jeff LPH 3, 63-66

When in Liberty ports, we had a Sailor standing on the pier by the brow with an M-1 Carbine. I had the watch one time and the Gunners Mate hands me the carbine and inserted mag which was empty, and an empty cartridge belt and a pair of white leggings to go around my blues. All for show.

26Limabeans

A training bayonet would have been nice.

Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH B Woodman

What is that weapon that Young Miss Thang is aiming? At first I thought it was the Russina WWII PPSH41, but the details don’t match.

26Limabeans

Want.

“https://www.emf-company.com/store/pc/PPS-50-c543.htm”

26Limabeans
5th/77th FA

CPL V got jealous cause his mama was cheating on him?

And Miss Thang? DAAAAAAAAAAYUUUUUM! Honey Hush. Only thing I could see she was holding was my attention.