The new issue of The Jury Expert is available online.
Sara Struckman, The Articulation of Lynndie England to Abu Ghraib: Gender Ideologies, War, and the Construction of Reality, 11 J. Magazine & New Media Research 1 (Spring 2010).
Marco Odello, Tackling Criminal Acts in Peacekeeping Operations: The Accountability of Peacekeepers,
Dayton Daily News reports:
A base airman has been ordered to face a special court-martial after allegedly leading military police on chase and crashing a vehicle in Fairborn on May 16.
Fox News has a piece on the research misconduct investigation.
onenewsnow.com reports:
The retiring Marine officer believes it was God’s will that the final board of inquiry ruled he must retire from the Marine Corps at the same rank. "I’m not glad about the way things ended, but I’m thankful that God closed the door on the Marine Corps for me," he explains. "I don’t think that I would have walked away. I think I’d still be out there running on that wheel."
This is a short piece on LtCol Chessani.
Lot here today. Catching up after a contested trial at Fort Bragg. I’ll update the Lakin page after today’s “events.”
Kate Wiltrout reports the retrial of Richard Mott at NOB, NorVA.
Almost two years after a Navy judge found Seaman Richard Mott guilty of attempted premeditated murder and sentenced him to 12 years in prison, he got a second chance this week to plead his case before a new judge and a military jury.
The Department of Defense announced Wednesday that President Barack Obama has nominated Lavelle to be reinstated to the rank of general, the highest in the armed forces. Lavelle died in 1979, seven years after he was forced to retire and was demoted to major general. A general wears four stars; a major general, two. Lavelle, a graduate of Cathedral Latin School and John Carroll University, had been accused of ordering unauthorized bombing raids on North Vietnam and falsifying records about the missions. It was later revealed that the accusations were unfounded.
Miami Herald reports on some blowback from the McChrystal issues.
Army Times reports that:
President Obama has nominated a Cedar Rapids-based assistant U.S. attorney to serve as brigadier general in the Army Reserve and chief judge of the Army Court of Criminal Appeals.
Spanish National Court Judge Santiago Pedraz issued an arrest warrant [text, in Spanish; PDF] Thursday for three US troops suspected of gunning down Spanish journalistJuse Couso [advocacy website, JURIST news archive] in Iraq. Couso, a television cameraman, was killed in 2003 when a US tank fired into the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad.
www.army.mil reports that:
I previously posted about this but here is a more detailed Navy Times report about CSM Crump, formerly of WRAMC.
A former command sergeant major at Walter Reed Army Medical Center fired for allegedly faking his record and wearing unauthorized awards and decorations faces military discipline for a series of bold deceptions that span several years and multiple commands, according to the charges against him.
World News Daily has a piece on LTC Lakin’s OER issue. The piece seems to accept without question or fact-check the allegation that the, “Army convicted me without trial.” It would seem a proper journalistic analysis would review the actual report (still publically unavailable) and review in comparison to AR 623-3 .
In a court martial trial that concluded after a panel’s deliberations stretched into the early hours of Saturday morning at Andrews Joint Base, a local Airman First Class was found not guilty of the charges brought against him.
As ABC 7 News reported last week, the charges were brought against A1C Marvin Skipper, Jr., after he fell asleep a second time while on security duty–even though doctors had ordered that he not be placed on that type of duty for medical reasons.
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