Aug 14, 2007

Jailed Vet Briefs Filed

Suppose you saw your friend crushed to death by this C-54 military aircraft (pictured at right). Any chance that you might have a problem with the death?

Airman Keith Roberts has filed his reply brief in his effort to overturn the government's conviction punishing this Vietnam-era vet's seeking PTSD-related health benefits.

Roberts is serving a 48-month sentence on federal wire fraud charges involving his experience watching and trying to prevent the death of his friend in 1969 who was crushed to death by a C-54 aircraft at a Naval Air Facility in Naples, Italy.

Details of the brief will be posted tomorrow.

Oral arguments will likely be scheduled this autumn.
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