is not only the legal skill but a familiarity with the inner workings of the military
in short captain i'd like to suggest that i be the one who that
that it be me who is assigned to represent them myself
amanda galloway once you get yourself a cup of coffee thank you sir i'm fine
commender i'd like you to leave the room so we can talk about you behind your back certainly sir
i thought this coke red [ __ ] wasn't going on anymore with the marines the
gitmo who knows what the hell goes on down there well we better find out what the rest
of world does damn thing could get messy all right what about this uh commander galloway
she's been working a desk in internal affairs for what uh a little over a year
now before that she disposed of three cases in two years three cases in two years who's
she handling rosenbergs she's not cut out for litigation she's a hell of an investigator jerry
an internal affair sure she can crawl up a lawyer's ass with the best of them well when
it comes to trial work i think i know i know all passion no street smarts bring her back in
joe
commander we're going to have the defendants moved up here in the morning
thank you sir and i'll have the vision to sign them council
but not me well from what i understand from your colleagues you're much too valuable in your
present assignment to be wasted on what i'm sure will boil down to a five-minute plea bargaining
week's worth of paperwork sir i think there might be more involved than that don't worry about it
i promise you division will sign the right man for the job all right let's go let's get two
sorry nothing to be sorry about cherby you just looked the ball into your glove shooting two
sorry you gotta trust me sherbet you keep your eyes open your chances of catching the
ball increase by a factor of ten taffy let's try it again cathy dave you seem distraught we were
supposed to meet in your office 15 minutes ago to talk about the mcdermott case you're stalling on
this thing now we either get it done and i mean now are no kidding kathy i'm going to hang your
boy from a [ __ ] yard arm daughter jervy does navy still hang people from yard arms i don't
think so dave sugar doesn't think the navy hangs people from yard arms anymore i'm gonna charge him
with possession and being under the influence while on duty you plead guilty i'll recommend
30 days in the brig with loss of rank and pay it was oregano dave it was 10 worth of oregano
yeah well your client thought it was marijuana my client's a [ __ ] that's not against law cafe i
got people to answer to just like you do i'm gonna charge him what possession of a condiment kathy
dave i tried to help you out of this but if you ask for jail time i'm going to file a motion to
dismiss it you won't get it i will get it and if the mtd is denied i'll file a motion in lemony
seeking to obtain an evidentiary ruling in advance and after that i'm going to file against pre-trial
confinement and you're going to spend the next three months going blind on paperwork it's a
signalman second class bought and smoked a dime bag of oregano let's go let's get two
be misdemeanor 20 days in the break see mr meaner 15 days restrictive duty
i don't know why i'm agreeing with this you have wisdom behind your ears
morning good morning those babies sam there i think she's getting ready to say
her first word any day now how can you tell she just looks like she has something to say
excuse me sorry i'm late all right danny i know you don't have a good excuse so i
won't force you to come up with a bad one thank you sir this first one's for you
seems you're moving up in the world been requested by division requested to do what guantanamo bay
cuba a marine corporal named dawson illegally fires around from his weapon over the fence line
and into cuban territory what's a fence line sam a big wall separating the good guys from the bad
guys teacher's pet pfc william santiago threatens to rat on dawson the naval investigative service
dawson and another member of his squad pfc loudon downey go into santiago's room tie him up
stuff a rag down his throat and an hour later santiago's dead attending physicians says the rag
was treated with some kind of toxin you poisoned iraq not according to them what do they say not
much they're being flown up here tomorrow and on wednesday at 0-600 you'll catch transport down to
cuba for the day to find out what you can meantime go and see lieutenant commander joanne galloway
with internal affairs any questions uh the flight to cuba was that 0-600 in the morning sir seems
important to division this would be handled by the book so i'm assigning co-counsel any volunteers
no sam sorry i got a stack of papers on my desk about a minute work with kathy on this doing what
caphill had this done in about four days doing various administrative things backup whatever in
other words i have no responsibilities here whatsoever right my kind of case
right right okay but i've got to have that report by wednesday
hi hold on hi daniel cafe i was told to meet with uh
retired commander galloway
that a briefing i'll call you back
you're the attorney division assign i'm the counselor sam weinberg
i have no responsibilities here whatsoever come in please have a seat
lieutenant how long have you been in the navy
going on nine months now and how long have you been out of law school a little over a year i see
have i done something wrong no it's just that when i petitioned the vision to have counsel
assignments hoping i would be taken seriously no offense taken case you're wondering commander
lieutenant cathy is generally considered the best litigator in our office he's successfully
plea bargained 44 cases in nine months one more i get a set of stake knives have you ever been in a
courtroom i once had my driver's license suspended danny commander from what i understand if this
thing goes to court they won't need a lawyer they'll need a priest no they'll need a lawyer
dawson's family's been contacted downey's closest
living relative is jenny miller his aunt on his mother's side
she hasn't been contacted yet would you like me to take care of that sure if you feel like it
one of the people we'll be seeing down there is the barrack ceo colonel nathan jessup i
assume you've heard of him who hasn't it he's been in the papers lately he's expected to be
appointed director of operations of national security council really these are the letters
that santiago wrote in his eight months at gitmo that's guantanamo bay i knew that one he
wrote to the fleet commander hq atlantic to the commandant of the marine corps even as senator
he wanted to be transferred off the base no one was listening are you with me yeah
finally he wrote to the naval investigative service where he offered information about
corporal dawson's fence line shooting in exchange for a transfer
right is that all lieutenant this letter makes it look like your client had a motive
to kill santiago gotcha and santiago is who the victim write that down am i correct and assuming
that these letters don't paint a flattering picture of marine corps life or guantanamo bay
yes someone further right in assuming that a protracted investigation of this incident
might cause some embarrassment for the security council guy colonel jessup 12 years i'm sorry
i'll get them to drop the conspiracy and conduct i'm becoming 12 years
you haven't talked to a witness or looked at a piece of paper
pretty impressive huh you're gonna have to go deeper than that commander do you have
some sort of jurisdiction here that i should know about my job is to make sure that you do your job
i'm special counsel for internal affairs so my jurisdiction's pretty much in your face
read the letters i'll expect a report when you return from cuba sure you're dismissed
i always forget that part
he's a little preoccupied the team's playing bethesda medical next week
tell your friend not to get cute down there