Navy Judge Criticizes Rape Case Witnesses

Are you taking note, Women, This is what they call Justice for serving your country.
A Navy judge chastised prosecutors Thursday at the court-martial of a former Naval Academy football quarterback charged with rape, saying their witnesses have been weak.

After he refused to let a nurse testify about the medical effect of rape and strictly limited what a psychiatrist could say about the mental state of rape victims, Navy Cmdr. John Maksym criticized prosecutors for what he called "the anemic nature" of their witnesses.

It was unclear whether the judge was referring to all the prosecution witnesses, which include the woman who said Lamar Owens Jr. raped her in her dorm room early on Jan. 29.

But Maksym was especially critical of expert witnesses prosecutors called to rebut questions raised by Owens' attorneys about why the woman didn't cry out that night and didn't immediately notify authorities.

They included an Army psychiatrist who testified briefly that some victims delay their reporting and many don't ever tell authorities about sexual assaults. The judge noted the psychiatrist was just two weeks into a psychiatry fellowship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

"Is there no more?" Maksym asked prosecutors. "Come on. The chap just got out of his residency. We're not talking about the son of Freud here."

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