Update - Marine Jailed for Exercising 5th Amendment
From BLACKFIVE:
Tomorrow, Wednesday (June 18th), Sergeant Jermaine Nelson will, once again, take the stand in the US District Court in Los Angeles.
BLACKFIVE.net/main/2008/05/marine-jailed-o.html”>The details are found at this post. Essentially, the US civilian courts can try our military for war crimes with no limitation. So, California courts could prosecute soldiers from WWII if they wanted to…here are some facts from the case in the original post:
…Jose Nazario has been charged under the Military
Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (MEJA) passed by Congress in 2000.
MEJA allows a service member serving overseas to be prosecuted in
civilian[...]