Comment from a reader on: Witness
Says Suspect U.S. Marine Didn’t Know Murdered Filipina Was Transgender
While I don't have any memory of criminal cases and trials
involving U.S. servicemen in the PI before 1991 or if the seemingly unique
decision to detain a suspect or convicted felon in the U.S. Embassy was ever
done before, in the 2005 case of Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, it could have
been that the U.S. military and embassy powers-that-were looked into his eyes
and believed his vehement claims that he was innocent (= reasonable doubt about
it being rape). And knowing he'd get railroaded in a "she said, he
said" trial in a coconut republic, they did what they could to lessen the
effects of his initial confinement and the unjust punishment of a 40-year term.
The fact that Smith's accuser recanted her testimony
following the trial and conviction is disgusting. Making false statements or
providing false information on visa applications is cause to deny the visa and
bar entry to the 
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