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Alright, if you like watching TV crime shows with lots of twists and turns in courtroom shockers,

you're in the right place today because today's case centers on lies, lies, and more lies.

Nowadays, it is safe to say social media is synonymous with lies. We have all been lied to by someone we met online.

Maybe someone's profile picture is a reflection of them in their skinnier days, or friends uses a little too much Photoshop on their Instagram pictures.

Or maybe someone's Facebook page makes them look like wealthy socialites when in reality they are living paycheck to paycheck.

But these are little white lies compared to those a woman named Samantha told her boyfriend, Navy Sailor Cooper Jackson.

Her lies left one marine dead and one sailor shaking his head in court when he met his girlfriend for the first time.

Join me today as I discuss the case against Navy Petty Officer Cooper Jackson. Now let's dig in.

My main sources for today's case came from an oxygen special titled A Lie to Die For.

A 48 hours episode titled Deadly Lies and the US Navy Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals 2007 Opinion.

Our story begins in January of 2006 in Virginia Beach at Damnec Naval Base.

23 year old Marine Corporal Justin Jake Hoff was on temporary duty in Virginia attending intelligence training.

Now this is a specialized training where they only send the best in the brightest. And this is something that he chose to do to progress in his career in the Marines.

But he was nearly 3000 miles away from his wife Becca. And she was 3 months pregnant and she was living back home near Camp Pendleton in California.

Justin came from a lineage of military men. His grandfather was a merchant marine in World War II. His father served in the Air Force and he wanted to be the first Marine in the family.

Justin first deployed in early 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. After this deployment he was only home a month before deploying again.

On January 2nd 2006, Justin's intel instructors they became concerned when he failed to show up to class.

And to be honest it was the new year so it's likely that his leadership probably thought he was a knucklehead Marine had a little bit too much fun over the New Year's weekend.

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