By Jayme Evans ——Bio and Archives--June 10, 2009
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“A review of S/Ehlers’ SRB was unremarkable. Criminal history inquiries were likewise unremarkable. When interrogated, s/Ehlers denied wrongdoing. S/Ehlers subsequently submitted to a polygraph examination, at the conclusion of which, it was the OPINION of the examiner that S/Ehlers had been deceptive to the relevant questions. During a subsequent interrogation, S/Ehlers made tacit admissions; however continued to deny wrongdoing as alleged by V/S”While NCIS conveniently can't seem to locate the alleged failed polygraph or the results, the Article 73 brief indicates that Edwin Ehlers was polygraphed a second time by Paul Redden of the San Diego Police Department. That polygraph was quality-checked by three other examiners who concurred with Redden that Ehlers was being truthful when he denied knowledge of the alleged incident. NCIS also failed to exercise due diligence by not following Department of Defense Directives to notify the command Family Advocacy Program in suspected cases of child molestation. NCIS investigators told Angela Ehlers that the FAP was not available in 2004, yet the directive which established the FAP clearly shows that it was available as of 1992. Perhaps most egregious of all, impeached testimony was still accepted by the judge. As a result, Ehlers' wife contacted the prosecutor after Edwin's conviction, asked if he was duty bound to report falsified evidence to which he replied yes. But to this day, he has refused to accept Angela Ehlers' evidence, despite the fact her article 73 petition for a new trial has been accepted by the Navy/Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals. Edwin Ehlers was charged in June 2004. He was tried in August 2007, a delay of over three years which was never satisfactorily explained. Like Sgt. Brian Foster before him, Edwin had the unfortunate bad luck to end up at the wrong end of an ex-wife's scorn. And like Brian Foster, he was found guilty, without a shred of evidence. In the end, the prosecution never put the step-daughter on the stand, never questioned the boy James, nor Ehlers' ex-wife about what they saw. While it's business as usual for the judge and prosecution, Edwin Ehlers slowly rots in a cell in Leavenworth, his children grow up fatherless and his wife, forced into single motherhood, struggles to survive while fighting for her husband's freedom. Had this Marine done what he was accused of, I would be first in line to call for his castration, but we must reserve that punishment for those whose misdeeds resulted in his wrongful incarceration. Their actions are a stain on the US Marine Corps and the entire system of military justice. To read about Edwin's case, visit < a href="http://www.militaryinjustices.blogspot.com> militaryinjustices.blogspot.com Sound off to key individuals responsible for oversight of the US Marines: Sen. Carl Levin, Rep. Ike Skelton and
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Jayme Evans is a veteran of the United States Navy, military analyst, conservative columnist and an advocate and voice for disabled and other veterans. He has served for many years as a Subject Matter Expert in systems software testing, and currently serves as a technical lead in that capacity. He has extensively studied amateur astronomy and metallurgy, as well as military and US history.