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Judge denies motion from Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair's lawyers to overturn case based on selective p
http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2013/06/05/1261403?sac=fo.militaryJudge denies motion from Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair's lawyers to overturn case based on selective prosecution
By Paul Woolverton
Published: 08:15 AM, Thu Jun 06, 2013
A pretrial hearing in Fort Bragg Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair's sexual misconduct court-martial ended Wednesday with the judge rejecting some of Sinclair's efforts to stop his prosecution.
Sinclair's lawyers alleged he was being unfairly singled out for punishment while other upper-ranked officers were treated more leniently. The judge, Col. James Pohl, disagreed.
But Sinclair also had a victory when the lead prosecutor announced that the government will restart the jury selection process. Sinclair's lawyers had challenged the jury pool on the premise that it was improperly selected and too limited in its scope of potential jurors for him to get a fair trial.
The jury will consist entirely of Army generals. At a court-martial scheduled to start July 16, the panel will be asked to consider whether Sinclair forced a captain under his command in Afghanistan to twice perform oral sex on him.
