''Travesty of Justice: The Shocking Prosecution of Lt. Clint Lorance'' is a 2019 book of
creative nonfiction written by
Don Brown, about the
United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare, land military branch, service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight Uniformed services of the United States, U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army o ...
’s prosecution of Lieutenant
Clint Lorance
Clint Allen Lorance (born December 13, 1984) is a former United States Army officer who is known for having been convicted and pardoned for war crimes.
While serving as a first lieutenant in the infantry in the War in Afghanistan with the 4th ...
. Lorance, a former paratrooper with the Army's
82nd Airborne Division, was convicted in 2013 for murder by an army court-martial for ordering Private E-2 David Shilo to fire on three Afghan men who had been riding a motorcycle toward their position in Kandahar Province,
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...
, in 2012. Lorance was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment.
The book discusses what Brown contends are numerous efforts by Army prosecutors to coverup evidence of Lorance's innocence, including biometrics evidence that he argues links the motorcycle riders shot by Lorance's men to bombmaking that killed American troops in the Afghan War.
Brown, a former
United States Navy
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JAG officer, and one of four former JAG officers serving on the Lorance defense team, appeared on
Fox & Friends
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on April 13, 2019 with
Pete Hegseth and
Ed Henry
Edward Michael Henry Jr. (born July 20, 1971) is an American journalist. Henry was the co-host of ''America's Newsroom'' on the Fox News Channel, along with Sandra Smith. On June 20, 2011, he left CNN, to become the Fox News White House Corresp ...
to discuss the book, and to urge President
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of P ...
to sign an order to disallow the findings and sentencing from Lorance's court-martial, to release him from prison and to return him to active duty in the Army. Between the release of ''Travesty of Justice'' on March 31, 2019 and Lorance's pardon on November 15, 2019, Brown made numerous national television appearances and penned numerous national OPEDs arguing that President Trump should free and exonerate Lieutenant Lorance.
On November 15, 2019, Trump did in fact sign an Executive Grant of Clemency pardoning Lorance, and releasing him from prison. On the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, November 27, 2019, Brown and Lorance appeared on
Hannity
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, the nightly national broadcast on the
Fox News
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Channel to discuss the presidential pardon and release.
Newsweek Article, U.S. ARMY OFFICER LINKED TO WAR CRIMES AND LATER PARDONED SAYS HE HAD HOPE ONCE TRUMP BECAME PRESIDENT, November 28, 2019, citing Brown-Lorance interview on Hannity
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References
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2019 non-fiction books
Books about the United States military