American Oyaji wrote:I'll say this...
They probably hooked Jenkins up with some lady and then threatened to kill her if he didnt go along.
Or they threatened to kill him.
I need more hard proof to convict this guy. .
The lack of proof is in Jenkins favor. However, the US is holding there's plenty of proof about Jenkins working on the intergation of the tortured : USS Pueblo crew and the government is holding that as its trump card. There's no news about Jenkins anymore which means things with his lawyer must be moving along: Next Jenkins step won't be decided this month: US-The Japan Times, Japan - Aug 7, 2004
Los Angeles Times
Thursday, July 15, 2004
... U.S. officials repeated this week that the United States would seek to extradite and prosecute Jenkins if he visited Japan. Legal observers in Japan say avoiding conviction will almost surely require him to explain why he disappeared across the Korean Peninsula's demilitarized zone while on patrol one night in 1965, and why he later participated in taunting, anti- American propaganda on behalf of the communist state.
With few facts or witnesses to the event, there is great anticipation for his explanation of what occurred.
"He holds all the cards; he has all the facts," said Annette Eddie- Callagain, an American defense lawyer based in Japan who specializes in representing military personnel in court-martial cases. "He can say, 'I was abducted. I had to do it to stay alive.' It's all going to be based on what he says. Only then can the military decide what to charge him with, whether desertion or aiding the enemy, and whether he can do some sort of plea bargain. "
