Will any of the Palin family testify on Jeremy Morlock's behalf?

As many of you know all too well, one of the soldiers that is on trial for murdering helpless Afghans, is a Palin family friend.

Jeremy Morlock was a hockey buddy of Track's, and his mother's twin sister even dated Todd for several years back in Dillingham before they both moved to Wasilla. 

Morlock's court martial will begin Wednesday for his part in the murders, though he has taken a plea deal that will reduce his sentence and also make him the key witness against the other soldiers who participated.

His mother, and Palin family friend, is blaming the military for turning her son into a murderer:

Morlock's mother, in an interview with The Seattle Times, blames much of her son's plight on a failure of Army leaders to oversee the platoon's behavior and actions.

"I think the government is just playing these guys as scapegoats. The leaders dropped the ball. Who was watching over all this?" Audrey Morlock said.

I am certainly not going to suggest that Jeremy was a killer before he went into the military, but I do know that he had some difficulties controlling his anger and possibly some substance abuse issues as well. Which should not come as a surprise considering he is the product of his environment.

Apparently to help create sympathy for Jeremy the defense is calling in some character witnesses from Wasilla to stand up in court and provide testimony on his behalf.

During the court-martial's sentencing phase, the defense is expected to bring to the stand Alaskans who can offer a different perspective on Morlock.

As mentioned before Track was a very close friend to Jeremy when they were kids so it is certainly possible that he would be called as a character witness, and Jeremy's sister April Morlock is still extremely close to Bristol, so the eldest Palin daughter would be a viable candidate to call as well. I would imagine that Todd also might be on that list, since it seems he often handled the bulk of the parenting duties.

And of course there is one other.

Hockey also was Morlock's passion. He played for years on a tight-knit youth team that included a childhood friend, Track Palin, son of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who volunteered as team manager.

Now if it were me, and I had the opportunity to call the ex-Governor of Alaska to testify on my client's behalf, I would not hesitate to do so.  I cannot guarantee that has occurred to Morlock's defense team but, if they are worth a damn, it has to have at least crossed their minds.

However the question is how hard would Sarah Palin work to keep herself, and her family, as far away from this embarrassing spectacle as possible?

Especially after images like this have recently turned up on the internet, of Jeremy taking joy in the death of another human being. (Beware image below is quite graphic!)

Sarah Palin's whole bullshit mythology is wrapped around her image as a hockey mom from a small town, who is a huge supporter of the military, and a defender of Bush's decision to invade both Iraq and Afghanistan.

How damaging would it be to her credibility, and her image, if she  had to appear on the witness stand to testify that a man who did what Jeremy Morlock has admitted doing, was just a regular kid from her small town (The town in fact she was once the mayor of.), who she drove to and from hockey practice, and who engaged in these atrocities while participating in a war that SHE supported?

Doesn't exactly match Palin's version of the quaint small town life that she has been painting these last two and a half years now does it?

No I have to imagine that the Grizzled Mama wants to stay as far away from this horrible incident as humanly possible.  And that goes for her family as well. However if she were asked by the defense team, and she turns them down, would we ever know?

Well I for one would certainly like to. Wouldn't you?