NEWS
July 28, 1987 | United Press International
A lawyer for Marine Sgt. Clayton J. Lonetree asked the military judge at his client's court-martial Monday to suppress two damning statements Lonetree made to authorities who investigated the sex-for-secrets scandal. The statements, one made on Christmas Day, 1986, in Vienna and the other later that winter during a five-day interrogation in London, should not be admitted at trial because Lonetree was improperly advised of his rights against self-incrimination, defense attorney William M.
NEWS
July 15, 1987 | Associated Press
The pre-trial hearing for a former Marine embassy guard accused of perjury has recessed for two weeks, to allow both prosecution and defense additional time to prepare their cases. Cpl. Robert J. Williams, 22, of New York, spent roughly eight hours behind closed doors on Monday as the Article 32 hearing opened at the Quantico, Va., Marine Base, according to Chief Warrant Officer Randy Gaddo, a Marine Corps spokesman.
NEWS
June 23, 1987
A former Moscow embassy guard who was questioned repeatedly by the Marine Corps in connection with an espionage scandal involving two other Marines was charged with 11 counts of false statements and perjury. The Marines charged Cpl. Robert J. Williams, 22, of the Bronx, N.Y., with nine counts of making false statements and two counts of perjury stemming from the manner in which he repeatedly changed his statements involving the alleged activities of Sgt. Clayton J. Lonetree and Cpl.