Chief Judge Kevin Riordan has spoken about the problem many times when sentencing soldiers at Linton Military Camp, often reducing sentences due to unreasonable delays. During the sentencing of corporals Grayson Kingsley Wright and Nicholas Paul Davenport for drug offences in March, Riordan said the more than two-year wait endured ahead of their trial was excessive and unacceptable. “Had it gone on much longer it might have invited grounds for a stay of proceeding.
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Chief Judge Kevin Riordan is one of two judges able to preside over a court martial. “The Duke of Wellington said that no soldier should be required to go into battle with a charge hanging over his head, and although you’ve not had to go into battle I think that the principle involved is still applicable here.”