HUFFINGTON
10.07.12
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“I SAW THINGS THAT WERE
INHUMANE THAT STILL STICK
WITH ME TO THIS DAY.”
alarmed and tracked him down.
“What often happens in these cases
is they get into trouble and stress
and go back on drugs,” Gormley
said. “I’m worried.”
But Beavers was okay. He’d
stayed off drugs, and was just
returning from the methadone
clinic at the VA.
“I haven’t seen my girls for weeks
and that’s been really hard,” he
said. “But no, I didn’t go back to the
drugs, I’m done with that.”
In Veterans Court, Garant and
Beaver’s public defender, Melissa Stango, are working to have
Beavers’ do