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Benderman faces new trial
Jan 29
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Category: In the News | Date Posted: Sunday, January 29th, 2012
By Eric Ruder
June 10, 2005SGT. KEVIN Benderman will again face a general court-martial, but the investigating officer has recommended that the Army dismiss some of the charges against him.
Last month, as the Army was set to begin Benderman’s trial, a military judge ruled that a previous investigating officer had been biased against Kevin during the military’s equivalent of a pretrial hearing. The judge ordered that Kevin had a right to a new investigating officer and a new pre-trial hearing.
Seemingly in retaliation, the Army ad…
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Court-martial of Ft. Carson GI to go on
Jan 29
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Category: In the News | Date Posted: Sunday, January 29th, 2012
By Arthur Kane
Denver Post Staff WriterA military judge refused Wednesday to dismiss the charges against a Fort Carson soldier accused of killing an Iraqi general during an interrogation.
Attorneys for Chief Warrant Officer Jefferson Williams argued last week that he is a victim of selective prosecution because two other soldiers in the case might not face charges and a prosecutor compared Williams to a Nazi.
Defense attorney William Cassara also charged that prosecutors told him Williams would go to trial no matter what evidence is …
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Evans attorney appears in Oscar-nominated movie
Feb 24
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Category: In the News | Date Posted: Sunday, February 24th, 2008
The Columbia County News-Times
By Jenna Martin
February 24, 2008William Cassara, of Evans, has a role in a film that could receive an Oscar tonight.
He isn’t an actor. Instead, Cassara’s profession as a lawyer put him on the big screen.
“It’s pretty neat, actually,” he said, “I was quite surprised to hear it.”
Cassara lives and works in Evans as a lawyer in private practice, most of which involves representing members of the military.
It was that kind of work that led him to be filmed for Taxi to the Dark Side , a nominee for …