"Silva’s sole crime: being investigated for something sex-related at the height of the Lackland witch hunt, which was a bureaucratically mandated search for scalps masquerading as a search for justice.
The Air Force had, at the time, taken a fresh beating in Congress over its inability to engender basic respect and dignity in the ranks, one manifestation of which was an unacceptable incidence of sex crime together with a pattern of inappropriate command responses to complaints of sexual misconduct."
Quinton was found guilty of a crime he did not commit, and much like the Lackland Rape Case, the charges Quinton faces could and should have been proven false under actually objective scrutiny.
Also like the Lackland Case the woman's claim could not be corroborated with physical evidence or eyewitnesses.
"The woman’s claim could not be corroborated with physical evidence, eyewitnesses, contemporaneous complaints, or anything else. But it was open season on Lackland and particularly on MTIs at the time the allegation was fielded, so the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI) did what it saw as imperative: it engaged in a wide-ranging fishing expedition looking for any additional evidence it could unearth."
Quinton's case has been a he said/she said sham.
What really strikes a cord between these two cases, is the ineffective assistance of counsel.
It was Quinton's constitutional right to be fairly represented as one presumed innocent until proven guilty, except his lawyer did near nothing to prove Quinton's innocence. How can a lawyer claim to be giving adequate assistance while also refusing to request a medical exam, a psyche evaluation of the "victim", phone records, video footage, etc, etc, etc.
The list goes on, and unfortunately for Quinton, it has resulted in what can only be described as the worst case scenario.
He faces four years in prison, life as a Level 1 Sex Offender, and a $2000.00 court fine.
Read the Lackland Rape Case story, the similarities are uncanny.
-Dana
Quinton was found guilty of a crime he did not commit, and much like the Lackland Rape Case, the charges Quinton faces could and should have been proven false under actually objective scrutiny.
Also like the Lackland Case the woman's claim could not be corroborated with physical evidence or eyewitnesses.
"The woman’s claim could not be corroborated with physical evidence, eyewitnesses, contemporaneous complaints, or anything else. But it was open season on Lackland and particularly on MTIs at the time the allegation was fielded, so the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI) did what it saw as imperative: it engaged in a wide-ranging fishing expedition looking for any additional evidence it could unearth."
Quinton's case has been a he said/she said sham.
What really strikes a cord between these two cases, is the ineffective assistance of counsel.
It was Quinton's constitutional right to be fairly represented as one presumed innocent until proven guilty, except his lawyer did near nothing to prove Quinton's innocence. How can a lawyer claim to be giving adequate assistance while also refusing to request a medical exam, a psyche evaluation of the "victim", phone records, video footage, etc, etc, etc.
The list goes on, and unfortunately for Quinton, it has resulted in what can only be described as the worst case scenario.
He faces four years in prison, life as a Level 1 Sex Offender, and a $2000.00 court fine.
Read the Lackland Rape Case story, the similarities are uncanny.
-Dana
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