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...trial of Captain Ernest L. Medina, Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey worried that public pressure would force the Army to impose some kind of punishment on his client. As it turned out, he had nothing to fear. After deliberating 68 minutes, the five-man military jury reached a verdict of not guilty on all counts of murder, manslaughter and assault...
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...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...
Favorable Testimony. In a typical maneuver, Bailey last week managed to draw testimony from a key prosecution witness that was overwhelmingly favorable to the defense. The witness was Gene Oliver, a cocky former private in Charlie Company, who came forward to state that it was he, and not Medina, who had shot and killed a small boy on the day of the massacre. Medina had been formally accused of killing the boy and an older woman, in addition to being responsible for at least 100 civilians slain near the hamlet...
Army Argot. Medina aided his own cause when Bailey finally put him on the witness stand on the 16th day of the trial. Confident and jaunty, talking in Army argot ("40 mike mikies," "four deuces," "BMNT") for the benefit of the five battle-tested jurors, Medina denied that he had been on the scene of the massacre. He also denied that he had told his men, as Galley had claimed during his own court-martial, to kill everything, including women and children; he said he had merely told them to "use common sense." Medina admitted to killing the woman...