Court-Martial Trial Practice Blog

Stars & Stripes reports: A Navy doctor faces 24 counts of wrongful sexual contact and is accused of assaulting at least 15 patients he treated in Japan and Kuwait since 2007.

All are straight legal denials on the merits.

You’ll recollect a while ago I posted about  USAF Demands Italy Lay Off Colonel in CIA Milan Caper Here is an update from the Washington Post.  Apparently the Italians didn’t put much stock in the U.S. arguments.  The lieutenant colonel along with 22 others has been convicted. An Italian court…

The Arizona Star net reports: Air Force personnel "scattered like cockroaches" when deputies were called to a rowdy house party on Tucson’s south side that left one airman dead and another accused of his murder, a military jury heard Tuesday.

Military.com reports: Prosecutors brought felony charges Monday against an Army reservist who allegedly stalked Ryan Seacrest, including showing up at the "American Idol" host’s studio and attacking one of his bodyguards. Uzomah is a sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserve and serves as a combat medic[.] Uzomah could be subject…

Navy Times reports: A senior Coast Guard official was charged Tuesday with multiple offenses, including sodomy, indecent acts and conduct unbecoming of an officer and gentleman. Newsminer.com reports: He is accused of sexual improprieties involving multiple women – some identified as enlisted Coast Guard personnel – in numerous locations around…

The Local (TL), Germany’s News in English reports: As thousands of people celebrated the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, Victor Grossman feared he might be arrested. Brett Neely meets the American defector who fled to communist East Germany after deserting from the US Army.

Arizona Star is reporting: Court-martial proceedings got underway today for a Davis-Monthan airman accused of killing another D-M airman in 2007.

Military.com reports: Airman 1st Class Apryl Sanders, a weapons manager for the 16th Airborne Command and Control Squadron at Robins Air Force Base, Ga., was named Miss Military last month by a nonprofit organization in California. Wednesday, she e-mailed the contest organizer to refuse the crown. Smith said that the…

For those following developments in United States v. Blazier, here are some status updates on Briscoe v. Virginia, from Prof. Friedman. In Blazier (and a somewhat similar case) CAAF has granted the following issues: No. 09-0441/AF.  U.S. v. Joshua C. BLAZIER.  CCA 36988.  Review granted on the following issue: WHETHER,…