Attorney Seeks Justice for Marine Confined Two Years Without Trial or Charges
18 Feb 2020
The San Diego Union-Tribune | By Andrew Dyer
SAN DIEGO -- A Marine recruit arrested for allegedly striking a drill instructor at the service's San Diego boot camp has spent most of the last two years in the brig and is now confined to a federal prison hospital.
He has not had a trial, nor has he been charged with a crime, according to the Marine Corps and the man's attorney.
Jay-Ar Ruiz' case raises questions about how the military justice system handles complex issues involving mental health, his attorney says, and how someone like Ruiz -- who his lawyer says had a pre-existing mental illness -- was allowed to ship off to boot camp in the first place.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/02/18/attorney-seeks-justice-marine-confined-two-years-without-trial-or-charges.html
