Role model

Maybe it was To Kill A Mockingbird that sparked off their youthful interest in things legal, maybe it was Perry Mason, but, whatever their motivation and background, what red-blooded aspiring law student wouldn’t look at Guy Womack and think: “That's who I want to be some day”?

A lawyer for Spc. Charles Graner Jr., accused ringleader in the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal, defended piling naked prisoners in pyramids Monday as valid prisoner control and compared it to shows by cheerleaders.

“Don’t cheerleaders all over America form pyramids six to eight times a year? Is that torture?” Guy Womack, Graner’s attorney, said in opening statements to the 10-member military jury at the reservist’s court-martial.