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Article: 'OUR WAY IS RIGHT, BUT IT IS ALSO DIFFICULT'
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- The Officer
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright Reserve Officers Association Oct 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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LtGen Jim Mattis, USMC, is the commanding general of the First Marine Expeditionary Force, and the commander of the Marine Corps Component of the U.S. Central Command. It was his duty to convene criminal investigations into the widely publicized event in which civilians were killed in Haditha, Al Anbar Province, Iraq, in 2005.
Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the first step of this process is an "Article 32 investigation." Substantially like a preliminary hearing, this investigation leads to a recommendation to the convening authority (LtGen Mattis in this case) as to whether a courtmartial is warranted. LtGen Mattis concluded that in the case of LCpl Justin Sharratt there was no ...