GUILTY MO - Myria Silva, 28, found murdered, Fort Leonard Wood, 10 Oct 2008

Kathee said:

A soldier with a medical support detachment from Mobile, Ala., who was serving at Fort Leonard Wood, has been charged with premeditated murder in the death of a fellow soldiers wife.

In evidence presented at Spc. Jermaine Johnson's Article 32 hearing military prosecutors say that Johnson and Myria Silva had been having an affair for seven months.


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The court martial trial rescheduled for 26-year-old Fort Leonard Wood Army reservist Specialist Jermaine Johnson has been put off for at least a month, the U.S. Army said Tuesday...

...Post officials report the trial for Johnson will now take place on or about June 29 to July 1. It originally had been set for May 18 to 20, but that was changed to May 20 to 22, only to be changed to the June or July dates...

...If convicted, Johnson faces a maximum penalty of life in prison without chance of parole.

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Spec. Jermaine Johnson, 26, will spend 30 years in military prison following his guilty plea during a Friday court-martial for killing another Fort Leonard Wood soldier’s wife last year while her husband was deployed to Iraq...

Johnson will receive a dishonorable discharge, forfeit all pay and benefits, and be dropped three ranks down to E-1, the lowest rank of private.

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