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"Judge suggests more sentencing options for war veterans"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new article in the Denver Post.  Here is how it starts: John K. Brownfield Jr. returned from tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan abusing alcohol and suffering from mood swings, anxiety, depression and insomnia.  "He was exposed to children being blown to pieces by explosive devices," said his lawyer, Vaughn McClain.  "His job was to go pick up body parts." Brownfield broke down in U.S. Senior District Judge John L. Kane's courtroom recently as he testified about the turmoil in his life during a hearing about his federal criminal court case. Brownfield pleaded guilty to bribery of a public official in a case stemming from accusations that during his tenure as a correctional officer at the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 11, 2009 (boomark / email).