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 | | Military officials declined to comment in detail about the case, but the speed with which Sivits' trial was announced, as well as the type of proceedings he faces, suggested that he has reached a deal with prosecutors that could include testifying against his comrades. | | | Under a proceeding known as a special court-martial, the maximum penalties Sivits could receive are one year of confinement, a reduction in grade, a forfeiture of pay for 12 months and a fine. | | | But military law experts said prosecutors could have tried Sivits in a general court-martial, where he could have faced stiffer penalties, including a slightly longer term of confinement and a dishonorable discharge, a more severe form of expulsion than one for bad conduct. |
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040510/news_1n10prisoner.html
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| | Online NewsHour: Court-martial of Spc. Jeremy Sivits -- May 19, 2004 |
| | Jeremy Sivits to the maximum penalty today for charges in connection with the abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. | | | I think all those parties in that case are coming back in about a month to sort of start again. | | | I take it that Sivits is expected to testify against some of the others? |
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| | At most, Sivits faces one year in prison, reduction in rank, loss of pay, and a bad-conduct discharge, because that is the maximum sentence allowed for a special court-martial. | | | Wednesday, May 19, 2004, at 8:38 AM PT Update, May 20, 2004: Yesterday, a special court-martial sentenced Army Specialist Jeremy Sivits to one year in military prison, a bad-conduct discharge, and reduction in rank to private. | | | The UCMJ authorizes capital punishment for murder and 14 other crimes, including espionage and aiding the enemy; most of these crimes must be committed during wartime to warrant execution. |
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| | JS Online: Reservist gets year in prison for abuse |
| | Sivits agreed to plead guilty and has promised to testify against the others. | | | Six other low-ranking soldiers have been implicated in the abuse, and three of them made initial court appearances Wednesday. | | | The punishment must be as severe as the crime." |
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| | Jeremy Sivits now key figure in abuse scandal - 05/15/04 |
| | Sivits has offered to plead guilty, and could testify against the others in exchange for a lighter sentence, they said. | | | The accusations he levels in the statements have been dismissed as self-serving and spurious by some of the lawyers representing the other six soldiers who have been charged in the case. | | | Davis told ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday that “no one was injured from what I did.” Frederick’s relatives and an attorney for Graner have also denied they did anything illegal. |
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| | Human Rights Watch was not allowed in the court room. | | | May 5, 2004: Sivits charged under Uniform Code of Military Justice with the following: | | | The court martial sentenced Sivits to the maximum sentence, one year of confinement, in addition to being discharged for bad conduct and demoted. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/j/je/jeremy_sivits.html
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| | Specialist Sivits remains eligible in future trials to be called as a witness by either the prosecution or the defense. | | | In exchange for the guilty plea, Sivits' case was tried as a Special Court-Martial and the soldier agreed to testify, if called as a witness, in the trials of other persons accused of abuse at the detention facility. | | | As part of the pre-trial agreement, Specialist Sivits agreed to testify truthfully, if called as a witness, in other cases. |
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http://www.usembassy-dhaka.org/state/StatePD/pre1may20_04.html
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| | The maximum prison sentence he could receive would be one year. | | | We'll have more on this court proceeding in just a few minutes. | | | We've got live reports for you from Baghdad, where the court proceedings are playing out. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0405/19/lad.04.html
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| | Under a deal with prosecutors, Sivits agreed to testify against six other soldiers in exchange for what is known as a special court-martial, which carries a maximum one-year jail sentence. | | | During a four-hour hearing, Sivits testified that he witnessed repeated acts of violence the night of Nov. 8 when he was summoned to help fellow members of the 372nd Military Police Company receive custody of seven Iraqi inmates. | | | Sivits was sentenced after pleading guilty to four criminal counts and agreeing to testify against six other accused Americans. |
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| | US guard pleads guilty to prisoner abuse in Iraq - May 20, 2004 |
| | One detainee was picked out by other soldiers and forced to simulate oral sex with another inmate and another was ordered to masturbate, Sivits told the court. | | | He told the court he did not believe it. | | | Sergeant Javal Davis, Frederick and Graner, who declined to plead Wednesday, face courts martial able to give tougher sentences than those available in the Sivits case. |
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http://www.inq7.net/wnw/2004/may/20/wnw_1-1.htm
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| | MPR: Sivits receives maxium penalty in first court-martial for Iraqi prisoner scandal |
| | U.S. military officials said Sivits had agreed to testify against others under a plea agreement, and that he will be taken to an undisclosed facility to serve his sentence. | | | His father, Daniel Sivits, made a brief statement. | | | Ricardo Sanchez, appeared to testify before a Senate committee in Washington. |
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| | US prison guard jailed over abuse - Iraq - www.theage.com.au |
| | Jeremy Sivits at the court martial in Baghdad. | | | Skip directly to: Search Box, Section Navigation, Content. | | | Sivits, a 24-year-old military police reservist, told the court that fellow members of his unit gravely abused prisoners and that he knew it was wrong, but participated anyway. |
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| | Abu Ghraib court-martial meets skepticism in Iraq csmonitor.com |
| | Sivits, whose lawyer told the judge he had reached a pretrial agreement with the prosecution, is expected to testify against other soldiers in coming courts-martial. | | | Graner, who faces a trial with no penalty limit, is also accused of trying to intimidate Sivits. | | | Jeremy Sivits was sentenced Wednesday to one year in prison and discharged from the Army. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Soldier ordered to trial in Iraq abuse |
| | Jeremy C. Sivits is the first U.S. soldier to face a court martial in connection with the abuse scandal. | | | However, no television cameras will be allowed in the courtroom, Brig. | | | Jeremy Sivits, 24, of Hyndman, Pa., has been charged with conspiracy to maltreat subordinates and detainees, dereliction of duty for negligently failing to protect detainees from abuse and cruelty, and maltreatment of detainees, Brig. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Hometown says soldier was always eager to please |
| | He won't discuss Sivits' case, says Larry Ingram of the Phelps Dunbar law firm in Tampa, where Martin practices commercial litigation. | | | Conviction could bring up to a year in jail. | | | Jeremy Sivits' lawyer is Stanley Martin, a first lieutenant and judge advocate general with the Army Reserve in Iraq. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Cartoons 20.05.04: The court martial of US soldier Jeremy Sivits |
| | May 20 2004: There was an Oprah Winfrey moment yesterday when Specialist Jeremy Sivits took to the witness box. | | | 20.05.04: The court martial of US soldier Jeremy Sivits | | | After admitting that he had done nothing to prevent the abuse of Iraqi detainees, Sivits, the first US soldier to stand trial for the Abu Ghraib scandal, offered an apology - to the Iraqi people, his mum and dad and to the prisoners he had unwisely photographed in a naked human pyramid. |
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| | New York Daily News - Home - G.I. sentenced to year in jail abuse scandal |
| | It was the maximum possible sentence under the deal Sivits cut to testify against six other soldiers accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners. | | | I should have protected those detainees that night." | | | Jeremy Sivits, who received maximum sentence of a year behind bars yesterday. |
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| | The New York Times > National > The Whistle-Blower: Accused Soldier Paints Scene of Eager Mayhem at Iraqi Prison |
| | But Specialist Sivits described a scene of twisted joviality not authorized by anyone in the chain of command and with no connection to any interrogations. | | | Last night, lawyers for the other charged soldiers repeated that. | | | Specialist Sivits was asked if the abuse would have happened if someone in the chain of command was present. |
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| | Army sets 1st court-martial in abuses - baltimoresun.com |
| | Because the penalties are less than those of a general court-martial - which depending on the offense can carry sentences of life in prison and even death - Sivits did not undergo the Article 32 preliminary hearing. | | | Sivits will be allowed to be represented by a civilian or a military lawyer, and he can choose whether his case is heard by a three-member jury of senior army commanders or a military judge. | | | Jeremy C. Sivits, 24, is scheduled for court-martial May 19 in Baghdad. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Middle East US soldier jailed for Iraq abuse |
| | They deferred entering pleas and were ordered to appear in court again on 21 June. | | | Before he was sentenced, an emotional Sivits told the court he felt remorse for his actions. | | | Sivits, the first person to be found guilty over the scandal, was also demoted and discharged from service. |
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| | Baghdad: US soldier Jeremy Sivits was sentenced to the maximum term of one year in jail yesterday after pleading guilty to charges over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners inside Abu Ghraib jail at a court martial in Baghdad. | | | Sivits admitted conspiracy to maltreatment of detainees and dereliction of duty around November 8 last year in the first trial over the scandal that has rocked the US-led forces and President George W Bush’s administration. | | | A military policeman, the 24-year-old Sivits was given a bad conduct discharge and reduced from the rank of specialist to the lowest rank of private, which he will keep until he is discharged from the army after completing his jail sentence. |
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| | PM - Court martial of Jeremy Sivits begins |
| | They declined, and now the date for those proceedings has been set down, so that will begin on the 21st of June, and now we're waiting for the beginning of proceedings against specialist Jeremy Sivits who's the first soldier actually to face court martial and the others will follow. | | | Sivits is the first of the American soldiers in the now notorious Abu Ghraib prison pictures to come to court, although three more of his colleagues were arraigned this morning. | | | MARK COLVIN: Few court martials in history can have attracted the kind of worldwide attention that's being accorded to the trial due to begin in Baghdad soon of specialist Jeremy Sivits. |
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| | Specialist Jeremy C. Sivits - Iraq Prisoner Abuse Charge Sheet |
| | Charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice alleging conspiracy to maltreat detainees, and dereliction of duty for negligently failing to protect detainees from abuse, cruelty and maltreatment | | | Specialist Jeremy C. Sivits - Iraq Prisoner Abuse Charge Sheet |
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| | We have not fully heard from everyone else in a legal framework who's being charged or who's about to face courts-martial. | | | Very interestingly, Specialist Sivits also indicates that commanders of that particular element of his unit were not aware of what was going on. | | | We have the statement now from Jeremy Sivits in which he describes some of his fellow MPs, reservists, soldiers acting very brutally to some of these prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. |
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| | Mad Guerilla Brigade - Jeremy Sivitz Sentenced in Iraqi Prisoner Abuse Trial |
| | Please take a second and vote for this article: | | | Jeremy Sivitz Sentenced in Iraqi Prisoner Abuse Trial | | | BAGHDAD (MGB) - Specialist Jeremy Sivits, the first U.S. soldier court-martialled over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners in Iraq, received on Wednesday the maximum penalty of one year in prison, a reduction in rank and a bad conduct discharge. |
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| | TalkLeft: SPC Jeremy Sivits Cooperates, Details Abuse |
| | * Sivits is being tried by a military court -- not by Rumsfeld and his neocon buddies. | | | Posted by Wendy at May 20, 2004 01:14 PM I guess the only rea punishment Sivits is going to get is coming back to the states and finding a civilian employer. | | | Sivits states that the 'Higher Ups" in the Chain of Command weren't aware of the abusive treatment of the prisoners. |
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| | Bedford MP faces May 19 trial on Iraq prison abuse |
| | Sivits, a trained mechanic serving as a military policeman, is accused of photographing the abuse of Iraqi prisoners. | | | If convicted, Sivits faces a year in military prison, reduction in rank to private, forfeiture of two-thirds of his pay for one year, and possibly, discharge. | | | Sivits' mother, Freda, said yesterday that the family would have no comment on the military's decision to court-martial her son first. |
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| | Sivits, 24, a member of the 372nd Military Police Company, was the first American soldier brought to trial in the prisoner abuse case. | | | He pleaded guilty to four charges during his court-martial May 19, 2004, and was sentenced to one year in prison, a reduction in rank and a bad conduct discharge. | | | The Army trained Sivits as a truck mechanic, not as a prison guard, his father, Daniel Sivits said. |
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| | Jeremy C. Sivits of Hyndman, Penn., a member of the 372nd Military Police Company, will face a military court in Baghdad on May 19 - less than a month after photos of prisoners being abused and humiliated were first broadcast... | | | Military policeman Jeremy Sivits, who apologized to Iraqis at the first court martial of soldiers accused of abuses which sparked worldwide outrage, was also expelled from the army. | | | Jeremy C. Sivits of Hyndman, Pa., a member of the 372nd Military Police Company, will face a military court in Baghdad on May 19 — less than a month after photos... |
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| | 9&10 News: Sivits Found Guilty of Abuse (5/19/2004) |
| | In a quirk of military law, if defendants plead guilty, they have to prove to the court they are indeed guilty and then the court formally renders a finding. | | | The court-martial then found Sivits guilty of all charges. |
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| | FOX23 - Coverage & Convenience - Court-martial charges against U.S. Spc. Jeremy C. Sivits |
| | This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. | | | These are the separate counts as stated in his military indictment: | | | - Charge 2 - Sivits "negligently failed to protect detainees from abuse, cruelty and maltreatment, as it was his duty to do." |
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| | Boston.com / News / Nation / Accused soldier's dad blames leadership |
| | Jeremy Sivits was charged with conspiracy to maltreat subordinates and detainees, dereliction of duty for negligently failing to protect detainees from abuse and cruelty and maltreatment of detainees, Kimmitt said. | | | If convicted of all charges, he could face one year in prison, reduction in rank to private, forfeiture of two-thirds of his pay for a year, a fine or a bad conduct discharge, military officials said. | | | Earlier, his father, Daniel Sivits, said his son was trained as a truck mechanic, not a prison guard, and would have gotten in trouble had he not followed orders to photograph the abused prisoners. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Americas Home town prays for Sivits |
| | The feeling here is that Jeremy Sivits and the other soldiers facing court martial are being made scapegoats for decisions taken at the highest levels of the US government. | | | And while many here say they are aware of the damage done to America's reputation, there is also resentment at what is seen as the failure of the world to show the same anger at the abuses committed by other nations. | | | Most locals describe him as decent and well mannered and find it difficult to believe he could have been involved in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners. |
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| | Military News - Veteran News: US Soldier Convicted, Gets Year Jail Term for Iraqi Prisoner Abuse |
| | After viewing the trial, the Iraqi Minister for Human Rights Bakhtiar Amin said that he was satisfied that justice was being served. | | | On Wednesday, 24-year-old Jeremy Sivits, who worked at the Abu Ghraib prison last year as a mechanic in a military police unit, pleaded guilty to three abuse charges. | | | Sivits also testified that one of the six accused soldiers told him that the guards were just following orders. |
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| | Despite guilty plea, Bedford town backs its soldier in Iraq |
| | Neither Gomer nor his friend, Michael Housel, 51, think the seven soldiers from the 372nd Military Police Company in Cresaptown, Md., are the ones who should be going to court. | | | Most people here don't believe Sivits acted on his own or that he should have been punished so severely for taking photographs of the alleged abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison. | | | Simply kicking Sivits out of the military would be enough punishment, said Kamauf, who works as a mechanic at Twigg's Auto Body and Collision. |
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| | VOTE.COM Did Army Spc. Jeremy Sivits Receive A Harsh Enough Sentence For Crimes In The Iraqi Prison Scandal? |
| | Sivits received the maximum sentence of one year in prison, a reduction of his military rank and a bad conduct discharge for his role in the Abu Ghraib abuse. | | | Sivits got off easy considering the amount of abuse he inflicted upon Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib and the universal shame he inflicted upon the entire U.S. military. | | | Jeremy Sivits Receive A Harsh Enough Sentence For Crimes In The Iraqi Prison Scandal? |
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| | INDOlink - US News - First American Soldier Faces Trial In Prisoners Abuse Case |
| | Before he is tried on Wednesday, three reservists from the same military unit who are also implicated in the abuse scandal will attend a pre-trial session to hear the charges against them. | | | Baghdad, May 19 (NNN): The first American soldier, Specialist Jeremy Sivits who is accused of taking the photos — including one of a "human pyramid" of naked prisoners - which sparked international outrage, will be charged in connection with the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal as he goes on trial in Baghdad on Wednesday. | | | Unlike Specialist Jeremy Sivits, who maintains senior commanders knew nothing about the abuse, the others are expected to contend that they were following orders as a means of "softening up" detainees before interrogation. |
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| | What is needed is a Nuremberg Trials of all who made this possible, beginning with Dick Cheney and ending wherever it must end in the Department of Defense and the State Department. | | | They only require someone like you and me, someone who when told to do the unthinkable checks first to see what his peers were doing. | | | We’ve known at least since Hannah Arendt that evil acts don’t require a twisted upbringing. |
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| | Jeremy on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Une des photos prises par Jeremy Sivits, à la prison d'Abou Ghraib Le soldat américain Jeremy Sivits a été condamné mercre. | | | The Epistle of Jeremy is a title given to the sixth chapter of Baruch. | | | A volatile life At age 3, Jeremy Harvey was separated from his brothers. |
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| | 2004 - Open Encyclopedia |
| | Jeremy Sivits pleads guilty in a court-martial in connection with alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. | | | UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is hit with a purple flour bomb during a session of Prime Minister's Questions. |
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| | TalkLeft: SPC Jeremy Sivits Pleads Guilty, Gets a Year |
| | As expected, Jeremy Sivits has pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate against other soldiers in exchange for a lesser sentence--he got a year in jail and a bad conduct discharge. | | | Seriously, I am more concerned with those that gave the orders to abuse. | | | "I'd like to apologize to the Iraqi people and those detainees," Sivits said, breaking down in tears as he made his statement. |
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