LT Acquitted on Murder Charges In Order To Fill Guam Eng Billet

Navy JAG Roils Legal Community Through "Red Detail" Defense

Groton, CT - The legal community is reeling in the wake of the unprecedented acquittal of LT Brayon Myers, the infamous defendant of Myers v Connecticut.

In one of the more brutal murder trials in recent memory, LT Myers was accused of, and later confessed to, the premeditated murder of three people in the Groton Moe's Mexican Grill. Legal experts were expecting swift legal proceedings followed by the standard sentence of life in prison. 

However, LT Myers - who was attending SOAC at the time of the crime - had orders to relieve the ENG on the USS Denver, a Guam based submarine which has been a high-priority fill for PERS42 Department Head detailers for the past several cycles.

Navy lawyers argued successfully that LT Myers could not spend his life in prison as he had already been red-detailed to the USS Denver, which recently failed its second ORSE in 38 months. The Navy argued successfully that the needs of the Navy trumped both LT Myers’ preferences and Connecticut state law. 

Navy JAG LT Jamie Devers expertly demonstrated to a judge that the only possible way PERS42 could meet the challenges posed by declining retention and a patchwork of homeport and platform guarantees was for LT Myers to relieve as the ENG onboard the USS Denver. 

The state’s district attorney made a last minute argument that LT Myers was unfit for duty as the ENG, stating, “LT Myers could harm submarine readiness if he murders again, because if enough people were killed, the USS Denver would be unable to meet minimum duty section manning requirements per the EDM. Furthermore, it would also weaken the boat’s audit and surveillance program since murder decreases the number of potential junior monitors.” 

LT Devers successfully argued that the state’s case was speculative, as it is only the killing of nuclear rates that would have an adverse effect on audit and surveillance and EDM requirements. “While LT Myers certainly committed murder, he did not show a bias towards nuclear rates when choosing his victims,” the defense attested.

"Furthemore," LT Devers said in her closing statement, "while murder is generally frowned upon in conventional society, it is not specifically contrary to any navy nuclear publication, unlike sitting on watch."

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