Marine Colonel Daniel Wilson, 58, was freed last week after a military appellate court cleared him of abusing another Marine's daughter.
NewsweekMarine Colonel Daniel Wilson, 58, was sentenced to five and a half years in prison in September 2017, after a jury of four generals and three colonels at a court-martial in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, found him guilty of one count of sexual abuse, six counts of conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman and one count of unauthorized absence.
Wilson was released last week and is now awaiting a decision on his retirement from the Secretary of the Navy, but the family of the allegedthe military's Uniform Code of Military Justice —the manual that defines how offenses are tried in military court. Additionally, whereas in a civilian court there has to be a judicial misstep for a case to be successfully appealed, in military courts, the appeals court can simply disagree with the jury's original decision based on available evidence, meaning, no judicial misstep needs to occur.to comment on the case, a Democratic spokesperson for the HASC said:"The committee is not aware of a formal request from the family to investigate the matter.
"One cannot overstate how serious the committee views its role in administering oversight for military sexual misconduct matters and will continue to look at legislative options to address any potential loopholes in matters as egregious as this one.
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