The safeguardourconstitution.com website has posted the charge sheet for LTC Lakin. WND reports that: The filing of charges may, however, be part of the still-unrevealed strategy Lakin and his legal counselors are pursuing. Not sure what “strategy” there is in making sure your client announces he will commit an offense,…
TPMMuckraker reports: Appearing on the G. Gordon Liddy radio show today, the attorney for Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, the Birther Army doctor who is said to be facing a court martial for refusing orders, suggested that if his client is court-martialled, he will use discovery to try to further the…
WorldNetDaily reports that LTC Lakin will be confessing on G. Gordon Liddy’s TV show tomorrow. The officer refusing Army orders until Barack Obama documents his eligibility to be president and commander in chief is hitting the airwaves tomorrow to answer questions about his challenge to the president. Lt. Col. Terry…
Stars & Stripes reports. Reversing an earlier decision, the Air Force said Monday it intends to discharge a lesbian Air Force officer who had remained in the military despite openly declaring her homosexuality. An Air Force general earlier this year concluded that Lt. Robin R. Chaurasiya should not be discharged,…
Sad, but not unusual, from The False Rape Society. My story started last summer when we got back from Iraq. My best friend and I went to a night club and long story short I had sex with a woman. This woman was a female soldier and ended up being…
Gianneli on the Unreliability of Microscopic Hair Analysis Paul C. Giannelli (Case Western Reserve University School of Law) has posted Microscopic Hair Comparisons: A Cautionary Tale on SSRN. Here is the abstract: According to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Report on forensic science, “testimony linking microscopic hair analysis with…
I posted on Hennis just the other day in terms of one reporters view of the weight of the evidence. Crime & Consequences picks up on a point. Myron Pitts, who covered the Hennis trial for the Fayetteville Observer, has this article summing up the evidence. The whole story is…
SCOTUSBlog has a podcast of today’s oral argument.
Here at truthout is a different perspective on the rapper case. According to Jeff Paterson of Courage to Resist, an Oakland-based organization dedicated to supporting military objectors like Hall, he was not jailed for the song, but was instead jailed "in retaliation for his formal complaint of inadequate mental health…
SCOTUSBlog reports that: At about 11 a.m. Monday, the Supreme Court will hear one hour of oral argument in City of Ontario, et al., v. Quon, et al. (08-1332). Arguing for the California city and its police department will be Kent L. Richland of Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland in…