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...believe that the press and TV should not have reported statements by soldiers involved prior to a trial. Americans show considerable sympathy for Lieut. William Galley, the platoon leader charged with over 100 of the deaths at My Lai. By a margin of 55% to 23%, they believe that Calley is being made a scapegoat by the Government...
Five weeks after making its decision to court-martial Lieut. William Calley on charges of premeditated murder, the Army announced that a second man would be tried in connection with the alleged massacre of South Vietnamese civilians at My Lai. He is Staff Sergeant David Mitchell, 29, who led one of the three squads in Calley's platoon on March 16, 1968. He was charged last week with committing, with intent to murder, "an assault upon a group of 30 Vietnamese nationals, more or less, by shooting at them with an M-16 rifle." If convicted, he would face...
Minimum Constraints. Many observers go even further. They question whether Calley can get a fair trial in any court of law-military or civilian. Where, they ask, is the potential juror who has not heard or read some account of events in My Lai on March 16, 1968, that would affect his verdict? President Nixon himself may have influenced the trial when he asserted at his press conference this month that civilians were killed in the village. "There is not anybody in this country," insists Calley's civilian attorney, George Latimer, "who does not think that...
Others raise doubts whether the autocratic military structure can ever permit a fair trial for Calley or anyone else who may be charged in the case. They suspect that the Army may well try to blame low-echelon officers in order to absolve the top brass-and to avoid an indictment of its conduct of the war in general...
Conversely, a number of lawyers contend that a military court may be biased in favor of Calley. The ten members of the court-martial, five or more of whom will ultimately decide Calley's fate, have already been chosen by Major General Orwin C. Talbott, commanding general at Fort Benning, Ga. All career officers at Fort Benning, they range in rank from captain to lieutenant colonel; five are in the infantry, two in the Signal Corps and three in other branches of the Army...