18 Quotes by Eugene Fidell

Basically, you're not supposed to lay your hands on a recruit. You don't really want to have drill instructors grabbing a recruit by the collar, which is what happened here, and you don't want to have them hitting them with elbows.

I can't recall a four-star general ever being called on as a witness.

It is a fact that having a request for a witness can be a form of leverage; it gives you something that you can negotiate with the other side about. If you don't ask, you're never going to have any leverage.

I think people around the world are going to be scratching their heads at that sentence. The conduct of which this soldier was convicted is highly offensive, and if this is all one gets it's not impunity, but it's getting real close.

It does look like there were some major gaps in the earlier investigations, which were not criminal investigations incidentally.

I think given the personnel turbulence on the Supreme Court right now, as well as the less-than-clear road map the court gave us in 2004, it's a whole new ballgame.

I think many people have come to conclude that the Supreme Court did nobody any favors by failing to move the ball further down the field.

The real question is who is the independent prosecutor who is liberated to pursue these cases. There is no central prosecution office run by commanders. So you don't have a D.A. thinking, I'm going to follow this wherever it leads.

We will have the equivalent of 'letters de cachet'.