We got is ROT in last Friday. I was excited but anxious. This begins the whole process of preparing and waiting again. His JAG lawyer has to go over it with the prosecution and judge and then can issue official copies. Our civilian attorney has already contacted me letting me know he heard about the ROT coming back. I'm allowing myself a little bit of hope because Bill Cassara, our lawyer, got another assault case overturned. It was a guy in my husband's POD too, which is the little section he lives in. It's like it could almost be us. But right now we are facing clemency. My husband's JAG lawyer, who has always been straight up with me, said it could take a month or so to get the packet together and send it up and then who knows how long to hear back. He did read the clemency letters I've collected though and said they were very well written. This gives me hope that maybe his packet will stand out because of them.
I got really upset yesterday because I responded to an article about the hearing on military sexual assault cases by saying that they are already pursuing any and all sexual assault cases to the point where they are convicting people with no evidence and just heresay, like my husband. A woman replied that I sounded like someone who couldn't handle her loved one being a rapist. I can't even tell you how pissed off I was. How dare she judge me or my husband? I may or may not have called her the C-word but then I realized I would've thought the same thing had I been in her place. You don't realize how screwed up things can get until you're on the other side of it. It made me feel even more alone and isolated. I'm sitting and waiting, hoping for the best but who knows if it'll happen. We may have to live with this hanging over our heads for the rest of our lives and it's not fair.
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