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"My Lai Mea Culpa" Hits Close to Home for UMKC Professor John Holt FOX 4 Web, September 16, 2009. Here is a link to some “history” of My Lai.

September 15, 2009 1:56 PM TOM ROEDER, THE GAZETTE Two Fort Carson soldiers are scheduled for courts-martial this month for alleged sex crimes. The two privates from a bomb-disposal unit will be in court charged with the forcible rape of a female soldier at the post. Another sex crime trial…

NMCCA has issued an opinion in United States v. Glass.  This reads like another of the “can they do that,” cases I come across often.  During the investigative stages clients constantly want to know “can they do that.”  NMCCA’s answer is – well, yes they can – there is nothing…

I posted the ACCA decision in Lynndie England’s Article 66, UCMJ, appeal. Now this:  Monday, Sep. 14, 2009, Military high court to hear Abu Ghraib appeals, By DAVID DISHNEAU – HAGERSTOWN, Md. — The U.S. military’s highest court has scheduled oral arguments next month on two appeals stemming from the…

Bobby Gifford has been kind enough to point our attention to this article. COURT-MARTIAL JURISDICTION OVER RETIREES UNDER ARTICLES 2(4) AND 2(6):  TIME TO LIGHTEN UP AND TIGHTEN UP?  By J. Mackey Ives & LTC(R) Michael J. Davidson, 175 Mil. L. Rev. 1 (March 2003) "In contrast, retired reservists are…

ACCA has issued a memorandum opinion in United States v. England, ARMY 20051170 (A. Ct. Crim. App. 10 September 2009). [A]ppellant claims, inter alia, that (1) the military judge abused his discretion when he rejected her guilty plea; (2) appellant’s trial defense counsel were ineffective for calling Private (PVT) Charles…

Quite a few people are twittering and blogging about Congressman Joe Wilson’s recent behavior during the President’s speech to Congress.  The basic claim is that he is subject to court-martial.  Maybe, maybe not. Here is what he has on his biography on his official site: Throughout his life, Joe has…

Marine sentenced to eight years for death in ‘trust me’ game September 10, 2009 7:49 PM, by Amanda Hickey, of JDNews.com (Photo:  Don Bryan)  A Camp Lejeune Marine pleaded guilty Thursday to pointing a weapon at seven Marines and one sailor in a deadly game that left one Marine dead.…

This story is out by Kate Wiltrout of The Virginian-Pilot, September 10, 2009 NORFOLK A naval officer accused of sexually assaulting a junior enlisted sailor has pleaded guilty to two charges but maintains he did not commit assault. A military judge is slated to sentence Lt. Jerome H. Randolph later…

AF Academy Major Sentenced In Sex Crimes AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) ― An Air Force Academy major has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for rape and other sex crimes. Academy officials said Wednesday that Maj. Barry Nixon was convicted by a court-martial panel of raping a girl…