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[quote][b]Remus (Dec 30, 2001 11:08 p.m.):[/b] Minerva Thoth's hearing was brief. It was immediately clear that the matter was a formality; the prosecution stated the bare facts -- and they were few, and quite weak -- and the defense simply moved for dismissal upon grounds of lack of evidence, which the Arbiter accepted. Thoth was led away, free and officially reinstated, and placed on the passenger list of the next outgoing transport, arriving in three days. Captain William Hale's trial was quite different. Numerous Command School records, from holocam logs, official and otherwise, to feeler recordings, to biosensor scans, were presented as evidence. The defense attempted to have these items disallowed, but gave up after Hale interjected to stop his counsel for the third time. They parade of evidence seemed endless. Conversations between Hale and Major Marcus Bryant, Command School's Headmaster. Reports made by Hale to the upper echelons of SOTF command concerning the progress of the students. Files from Hale's stand-alone terminal on Kinoshita, painting a very clear picture of her pre-Battleschool history. Psych evaluations of Kinoshita from Battle and Command Schools, expressly stating that she should be watched carefully. The prosecution summed up by weaving it all to Hale. It presented the recommendation letter to the SOTF brass overseeing the SO AIT, stating that Kinoshita was a cold-blooded killer perfectly suited to Legion, signed by Hale himself. Hale's evaluations of Kinoshita, naming her as the most promising candidate of the group, even as they named her talents with subterfuge and deceit. And most devastatingly, a small library of reports concerning Hunter Gabriel and Rebecca Solenis, and Hale's suspicions concerning their loyalties. Where were Gabriel and Solenis now? The prosecution told the Court Martial. Headed home to Earth on a transport vessel, having completed their final quite creatively, if recklessly. The reports, one by one, strengthened the prosecution's case to the point of iron-clad. Hale's obsession with beating Gabriel and Solenis, the prosecution stated, had blinded him to the clear and present danger Kinoshita had presented long before she'd ever entered his program. He had taken what he'd known to be a murdering manipulator, and trained her in the art of the fader, of the shade, of the assassin. She had been a killer before; now she was a scourge. The chances of recovering her, dead or alive, were slim; and in addition to any deaths she might cause once she reached Earth, there was a disk with the plans for a multibillion dollar defense corvette that would very soon be in the hands of anyone who could meet Kinoshita's price. All because of Captain William Hale. The defense, when it finally got its turn, had little to use. Most of the avenues open to it had been expressly denied by Hale's guilty plea, and those few left were weak and unbelievable, and Hale reined in his counsel whenever any twist of the facts was attempted. Hale was sentenced to twenty years in IF Maximum Security Detenion Center on Jupiter's moon Io, with his first parole hearing in ten, and additional hearings every two. Hale denied his defense permission to appeal. Twelve days later, a freighter bound for Senty Station Omicron, in orbit around Jupiter, arrived at the IF Central Command Post, and William Hale, dishonorably discharged from the International Fleet, stripped of rank and position, was loaded aboard it. In another month and a half, he was on Io, in a subterranean prison compound. It was very cold. His first day, a man tried to kill him for his toothbrush and shoes. Hale broke nine of the man's bones, and landed himself in solitary confinement for a week. His first night, he lay in the dark metal box and dreamed of what he would do, when he got out. He would pay for his crimes. But when he'd finished, so too would Kinoshita.[/quote]
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