The Army has filed court-martial charges against Alexis Hutchinson, an Army cook who refused to deploy to Afghanistan because she couldn’t find anyone to look after her 1-year-old son. Newser reports. The court-martial charges are AWOL and missing movement, offenses under the UCMJ.
The trial for the Navy SEAL accused of punching an alleged al-Qaida terrorist while in U.S. custody in Iraq has been postponed until May 3, but the trial will remain in Norfolk. Capt. Moira Modzelewski granted government prosecutors the continuance on the grounds that most of the evidence in the…
Two officers accused of stealing stealing classified material from an underground missile launch facility at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota have been allowed to resign rather than face courts-martial, the military said Wednesday. A hearing was held in September 2008 to determine whether Borowiecki would face a trial.…
Fifty State Survey of Adult Sex Offender Registration Laws Brenda V. Smith American University – Washington College of Law; American University – NIC/WCL Project on Addressing Prison Rape August 1, 2009 Abstract: This publication is part of a larger scholarly project and one in a series that aims to create…
Jenny Roberts, Ignorance Is Effectively Bliss: Collateral Consequences, Silence, and Misinformation in the Guilty-Plea Process, 95 IOWA L. R. 119 (2009). ABSTRACT: In the 2009–2010 term, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide if it matters whether a criminal defense lawyer correctly counsels a client about the fact that the client…
Here is a link to today’s oral argument in Briscoe v. Virginia, the post Crawford and Melendez-Diaz case. While I’m not convinced the decision will have much meaning in military cases, there are others who believe it will. So it does behoove us to monitor the case.
A military judge has decided to move the trial for one of three Navy SEALs accused in connection with the alleged assault of a suspected terrorist to Iraq. Cmdr. Tierney Carlos, the trial judge for the court-martial of Special Warfare Operator 2nd Class (SEAL) Jonathan Elliot Keefe, has agreed with…
Here is an interesting piece relevant to a pending court-martial? Tim King, The Fragging of American Officers: Historic Problems and Future Planning, Salem-News.com. What we call fragging the British Navy called "Shot Rolling" after the practice of rolling a cannon ball across the deck for the purpose of injuring an…
The Killeen Daily Herald reports that LTG Cone recently gave a briefing about “behavioral health care.” The Army is behind Fort Hood’s effort to address behavioral health care issues and plans to institute it across the board, the post’s commander said Friday. In response to incidents like the Nov. 5…
A few days ago I posted about the military rapper pending court-martial for his music. It seems that he has a website and is now “promoting himself as the first hip hop president of the world, reports Coastal Courier.com. (Caution bad language.)