Robert Chester
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Robert Chester is a military officer and lawyer. Chester is a Colonel in the United States Marine Corps.
He was the judge in the trial of Major Clarke Paulus, the officer in charge of Camp Whitehorse, when his troops beat an Iraqi prisoner they incorrectly believed had been tied to the torture of Jessica Lynch.
Paulus's trial was marred by a tragicomic loss of the body of the victim, prior to his post-mortem.
More recently Chester was appointed to serve as President of the Guantanamo military commission faced by Omar Khadr.
On January 12, 2006 he admonished Khadr's prosecutor, Colonel Morris Davis, to show more respect to Khadr. He instructed him to start referring to Khadr as "Mr Khadr".
[edit] References
- ↑ Army pathologist concedes errors in prisoner-abuse case, Tao, October 14, 2004
- ↑ Army pathologist concedes errors in prisoner-abuse case, USA Today, October 14, 2004
- ↑ Judge excludes medical evidence in court-martial of Marine, Union Tribune, November 2, 2004
- ↑ Marine's trial in Iraqi's death starts in Calif., USA Today, November 3, 2004
- ↑ U.S. prosecutor in Khadr case blasts sympathetic views of Canadian teen, CBC, January 10, 2006
- ↑ U.S. prosecutor's comments on Khadr reviewed, Toronto Star, January 12, 2006
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