Military Law,
Government,
Criminal
Jan. 19, 2018
Command influence tainted Bergdahl case
Is a man who did not bother to learn the facts of the case, and who deferred the draft five times and never served, in a positon to comment at all?
William W. Bruzzo
Law Ofc William W BruzzoWill is criminal defense lawyer in Orange County practicing civilian and military criminal law. He is a 1994 Graduate of the Naval Justice School and spent seven years in the United States Marine Corps which included positions as a judge advocate, company commander and the executive officer of an H&S Company in the 4th Tank Battalion. He was honorably discharged as a major. He is also a mentor at the Veteran's Court in the Orange County Superior Court.
In 2015, while Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl's court martial was pending, I wrote an article in these pages arguing that the five years he spent a captive of the Taliban, where he was subject to torture and permanently impaired as a result, should be deemed sufficient and that Bergdahl should be released from the Army without further punishment.
My argument was based on Bergdahl's mental health history, which included a diagnosis of schizot...
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