{"id":186305,"date":"2014-03-06T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/06\/senate-votes-down-sexual-assault-accountability-and-the-armys-top-sex-crime-prosecutor-relieved-for-sex-crime\/"},"modified":"2014-03-06T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T01:53:00","slug":"senate-votes-down-sexual-assault-accountability-and-the-armys-top-sex-crime-prosecutor-relieved-for-sex-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/06\/senate-votes-down-sexual-assault-accountability-and-the-armys-top-sex-crime-prosecutor-relieved-for-sex-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Votes Down Sexual Assault Accountability and the Army&#8217;s Top Sex Crime Prosecutor Relieved for Sex Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the same f%$#ing day as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/gillibrand-senate-failed-military-sex-assault-victims-n46311?google_editors_picks=true\">filibuster killed sex crime prosecution reform in the Senate<\/a>,&nbsp; Lt. Col. Joseph \u201cJay\u201d Morse, the top sex-crimes prosecutor in the US Army, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/army-s-top-sex-assault-prosecutor-suspended-after-assault-allegation-1.271461\">Asuspended for alleged sexual assault<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The top Army prosecutor for sexual assault cases has been suspended after a lawyer who worked for him recently reported he\u2019d groped her and tried to kiss her <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">at a sexual-assault legal conference<\/span><\/b> more than two years ago.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Morse was removed from his job when the allegations came to light, one source said. To date, no charges have been filed in the case.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sources told Stars and Stripes that the Army lawyer alleged that Morse attempted to kiss and grope her against her will. The alleged assault reportedly took place in a hotel room at a 2011 sexual assault legal conference attended by special victims prosecutors in Alexandria, Va., before he was appointed as chief of the Trial Counsel Assistance Program.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So long as those ratf%$#s in the Senate are unwilling to protect the troops from the corrupt elements in our officer corps, this crap will continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the same f%$#ing day as a filibuster killed sex crime prosecution reform in the Senate,&nbsp; Lt. Col. Joseph \u201cJay\u201d Morse, the top sex-crimes prosecutor in the US Army, was Asuspended for alleged sexual assault: The top Army prosecutor for sexual assault cases has been suspended after a lawyer who worked for him recently reported &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,972,1020,1006,978,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-justice","category-legislation","category-military","category-politics","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}