LiberalNation
11-13-2008, 04:48 PM
Well you can't expect cooperation when the deal you break is equivalent to a life sentence anyway.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_re_us/soldiers_slaying;_ylt=AqPPePZsXrNnndtVO928ME1vzwcF
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Defying the terms of his plea agreement, an Iraq war veteran will not testify against a fellow soldier charged with murdering another veteran after a drunken dispute, his lawyers said Wednesday.
Bruce Bastien will not testify at the trial of Louis Bressler, who is charged with first-degree murder in the Dec. 1 fatal shooting Spc. Kevin Shields, Bastien's attorneys told the judge at Bressler's trial.
Bastien is serving 60 years in prison as part of a plea agreement that required him to testify against Bressler in Shields' death and in the August 2007 death of fellow soldier Robert James. Bastien pleaded guilty to being an accessory to murder in Shields' death and to conspiracy to commit murder in James' death.
Deputy District Attorney Jack Roth told El Paso County District Judge Theresa Cisneros that he had not decided whether to refile first-degree murder and other charges against Bastien that would carry a mandatory life sentence.
"He's got 60 years and he's got to deal with it," Roth said as he mulled the decision.
Prosecutors say Bressler killed Shields because he knew too much about robberies the men planned to commit, and because he lost a fight to Shields earlier that night.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_re_us/soldiers_slaying;_ylt=AqPPePZsXrNnndtVO928ME1vzwcF
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Defying the terms of his plea agreement, an Iraq war veteran will not testify against a fellow soldier charged with murdering another veteran after a drunken dispute, his lawyers said Wednesday.
Bruce Bastien will not testify at the trial of Louis Bressler, who is charged with first-degree murder in the Dec. 1 fatal shooting Spc. Kevin Shields, Bastien's attorneys told the judge at Bressler's trial.
Bastien is serving 60 years in prison as part of a plea agreement that required him to testify against Bressler in Shields' death and in the August 2007 death of fellow soldier Robert James. Bastien pleaded guilty to being an accessory to murder in Shields' death and to conspiracy to commit murder in James' death.
Deputy District Attorney Jack Roth told El Paso County District Judge Theresa Cisneros that he had not decided whether to refile first-degree murder and other charges against Bastien that would carry a mandatory life sentence.
"He's got 60 years and he's got to deal with it," Roth said as he mulled the decision.
Prosecutors say Bressler killed Shields because he knew too much about robberies the men planned to commit, and because he lost a fight to Shields earlier that night.