The court-martial trial for a Peterson Air Force Base colonel on charges that include rape and adultery with a half-dozen paramours is set to begin Monday.
Col. Eugene Marcus Caughey is the highest-ranking Pikes Peak region airmen to go before a court-martial in more than a dozen years. Caughey was the No. 2 officer in Schriever Air Force Base’s 50th Space Wing at the time of the incidents, which go back to 2014.
If convicted, he faces a maximum punishment of life behind bars.
Caughey’s lawyers have argued that the adultery charges should be dropped because they violate the colonel’s right to equal treatment under law. Homosexual airmen, they argued, face no similar consequence for stepping out on a spouse because, as written, the charge requires sex between a man and a woman.
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