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Kirsten Gillibrand: “The only difference is the legal judgment, that weighing of evidence and facts, will now be done by a trained objective…”

On the recordJanuary 30, 2013
The only difference is the legal judgment, that weighing of evidence and facts, will now be done by a trained objective military prosecutor.
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Gillibrand highlights the shift to military prosecutors for legal judgments in sexual assault cases.

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