Facts:
Two Military Police officers claimed they had interrupted a sexual assault in a bathroom at Camp Humphreys. The allegation was that our client entered while a female Soldier was unconscious after vomiting and sexually assaulted her. CID then arranged a recorded pretext call between the complainant and our client, an Army Private First Class. The government had supposed eyewitnesses and an apology to play for the panel. Our client faced a general court-martial and more than 31 years of confinement.
Tim Bilecki challenged the story those witnesses were telling. At trial, we exposed that the law enforcement witnesses had themselves assaulted and mistreated our client that night. Their hostility grew out of jealousy over his involvement with one of their girlfriends. Their claimed role as rescuers concealed their own conduct.
We also exposed the complainant’s participation in the assault and the subsequent cover-up. Her account had to be assessed alongside her dishonesty, substance abuse and the reasons the other witnesses had to protect themselves. The recorded apology did not answer those problems in the government’s case.
The panel acquitted our client of every charge. Bilecki’s advocacy made the trial about what the witnesses had actually done and why they were accusing him, rather than allowing their status as law enforcement witnesses to carry the case.
Prior results do not predict future outcomes.