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Sexual assault and law of war-worth the read

Something here for the downrange SJA/BJA. You’ll remember this: Joseph Goldstein, U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies, N.Y. Times (Sept. 20, 2015),http://nyti.ms/1KrOuSM. And perhaps the Soldier trouble for beating up an Afghan.  See Kyle Jahner, ‘One of the Best’: Defenders Show Support for Ousted…

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Change in the offing-again

Practitioners of military justice have been dealing with change over the last years due primarily to different approaches to sexual assault cases.  Friend and colleague Cully Stimson has a published piece from his and his organization’s perspective.  Take a look. The 2015 Report of the Military Justice Review Group: Reasonable…

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Its a question of reliability

· Police can tell when a suspect is lying · People confess only when they have actually committed the crime they are being charged with · Most judges and jurors fully understand court instructions · Eye-witnesses are always the most reliable source of case-related information · Most mentally ill individuals…

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If

“If we prioritize conviction rates rather than having just verdicts, and if we vote that way in elections, this problem [of unfair, biased criminal prosecutions] will just continue.” by Todd VanDerWerff on January 11, 2016, Netflix’s Making a Murderer: the directors explain what many have missed about the series.  Vox.com, January 11,…

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Sue her–ahem, them

The interesting case of West v. Rieth, et. al. has come across the transom and it’s worth the read. West alleges that the Federal Defendants, who with one exception were also U.S. Marine Corps service members at all relevant times, conspired to lodge false complaints and accusations of sexual harassment and sexual…

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Coaching of child witnesses-WTR

Kyndra C. Cleveland , Jodi Quas and Thomas D. Lyon (University of California, Irvine , University of California, Irvine – Department of Criminology, Law and Society and University of Southern California – Gould School of Law) have posted Valence, Implicated Actor, and Children’s Acquiescence to False Suggestions (Forthcoming, Journal of Applied Developmental…

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Neglecting the rights of an accused–WTR

We are all familiar of Congressional and command efforts to address military sexual assaults.  Many of the revisions to the UCMJ and the MCM flowing from these efforts are appropriate, reasonable, or meaningless. However, what does appear consistent is the failure of Congress to recognize that it has a concomitant…

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