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...Herbert claimed that the Army had attempted to muzzle and harass him. Citing stress on his wife and daughter, Herbert announced he would voluntarily retire in February after 20 years. At 41, he was on his way out, passing his final months in the Army initialing papers at Fort McPherson near Atlanta. His dead-end job was once shared by Captain Ernest L. Medina...
...pace and tenor of the Medina court-martial at Fort McPherson, Ga., was in sharp contrast to Calley's trial. In the latter case, the coldly efficient Army prosecutor, Captain Aubrey M. Daniel, was easily able to destroy the bumbling defense put forward by Calley's aging civilian counsel, George W. Latimer. Medina's chief prosecutor was Major William G. Eckhardt, who went into the trial with the record of having unsuccessfully prosecuted two previous Viet Nam atrocity cases. The captain's lawyer, moreover, was the flamboyant Boston attorney F. Lee Bailey, with his vast repertory...
...killing. When Eckhardt showed that the same test also indicated that Oliver harbored feelings of "tremendous hostility" toward the prosecution, a violent shouting match ensued between Eckhardt and Bailey in which Eckhardt accused Oliver of deliberately trying to obstruct the prosecution's case. When Oliver arrived at Fort McPherson, he gleefully told an Army driver: "I'm going to blow this case wide open." In part, he did. Colonel Kenneth Howard, the presiding officer, dropped the charge of killing...
...reduction in Galley's sentence was announced at Fort McPherson outside Atlanta, where Charlie Company's commander, Captain Ernest L. Medina, is in the second week of his long-awaited court-martial. Army prosecutors are attempting to convict Medina of command responsibility for what went on in the ill-fated village. Relaxed and apparently unconcerned as the men who once served under him take the stand to testify for the prosecution, Medina passes his courtroom time drawing doodles of the newsmen covering his trial. As Medina and Calley await the results of the legal proceedings against them...
...Calley admitted firing into a drainage ditch filled with Vietnamese captives but insisted that everything he did at My Lai on the morning of March 16, 1968, was under the orders of his company commander, Captain Ernest Medina. Medina is currently awaiting court-martial on similar charges at Ft. McPherson...