Coast Guard member charged with shipmate’s death in Alaska found not guilty

Sometimes there is just insufficient proof for some charges
Coast Guard Seaman Ethan W. Tucker, right, was accused of killing Seaman Ethan Kelch, left, in Alaska in January 2019. On Thursday, Sept.17, 2020, a military judge found Tucker not guilty of involuntary manslaughter and negligent homicide but guilty of assault consummated by battery. Tucker was sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge, reduction to paygrade E-1, and 14 months confinement.

Three guys go out drinking. They all drink to much and one dies. So you charge one of the two with the death of the third? I sure hope there was more than the article said. Who the hell referred the charges? I hate to see when commanders just blindly listen to lawyers. Just as much as when they listen to doctors!