Reads a CBS News piece from SABILLASVILLE, Md., Sept. 21, 2009 Marine who Toured U.S. Touting Heroics in Afghanistan Exposed as Fraud In this July 22, 2008 photo, U.S. Marine Sgt. David Budwah is shown during a visit with children at Camp West Mar in Sabillasville, Md. (AP Photo/Herald-Mail, Yvette…
That’s the headline from an article By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes, Mideast edition, Sunday, September 20, 2009 WASHINGTON — Two years after naval investigators uncovered a hazing scandal inside a Bahrain-based canine unit, including numerous cases of violent attacks and sex crimes, officials can’t say whether anyone was…
The proposed amendment to FRE 804(b)(3) will be transmitted to the Supreme Court for its review with a recommendation from the U.S. Judicial Conference that the Supreme Court approve and transmit the proposed amendment to Congress. Under Mil. R. Evid. 1102, if approved the change will become effective in courts-martials…
2010 Judicial Conference and Continuing Legal Education Program March 10 – 11, 2010 The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law 3600 John McCormack Rd, NE Washington, DC
I posted an earlier decision of NMCCA about overcharging in CP cases. NMCCA has issued a decision in United States v. Whelihan, on the same issue. No sentence relief because the MJ did do a United States v. Quiroz, 55 M.J. 334 (C.A.A.F. 2001) analysis. NMCCA has also issued a…
There are two MJ related articles in the September issue. A Specialized Society: Speech Offenses in the Military. Prosecuting an HIV-Related Crime in a Military Court-Martial: A Primer.
Courtesy of Christopher Matthews at CAAFLog. CPT Rhodes yesterday filed an “Emergency Request for Stay of Deployment,” alleging that her suit raises issues “of truly historical, in fact epic and epochal, importance” which demand reconsideration. Accusing the President of “fraud and trickery against the American People [sic],” the captain avers…
Airman Charged With Thefts From Police September 18, 2009, Tulsa World TULSA, Okla. — Several electronic gadgets that were stolen from the Tulsa Police Department were recovered when officers investigated a member of the military who was assigned to the agency’s Special Investigations Division, police said. This resonated with me…
I recently posted the current status of a military birther law suit the other day. Subsequently the attorney filed a motion for reconsideration. Now a CA licenced attorney has filed an ethics complaint against Orly Taitz, for the rather choice language in the reconsideration request. /tip “Paul” a commentator on…
Here is an interesting commentary on: Justice lag Lt Col Jeffrey Chessani, a Marine Corps officer charged with failing to report or investigate the killings in Haditha, photographed at Camp Pendleton in June 2008. Charges against Chessani – and against six of the other seven men facing courts-martials – have…