Cliff’s Cornell’s lawyer wants sentence reduced
From the Nanaimo Daily News: Army deserter’s lawyer wants sentence reduced.
The lawyer representing jailed U.S. Army deserter Cliff Cornell wants supporters to write his commanding officer to ask for clemency.
Cornell, who spent nearly three years working at a Gabriola Island grocery store, was jailed on Tuesday for one year after pleading guilty to desertion at his court-martial hearing at the Fort Stewart, Ga. military base where he works.
Under U.S. military law, the commanding general has special authority to recommend a reduction to a court-martialed prisoner’s sentence.
Lawyer James Branum is mounting an international campaign to convince the commanding general to reduce the time Cornell will have to spend behind bars.
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