NEWPORT NEWS
The family of a sailor slain in Newport News is pressing the Navy to court-martial and dishonorably discharge the fellow sailor convicted of killing her.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., has already weighed in, telling the Navy last month that the sailor, Darren W. Mackie, 22, should be dishonorably discharged "at the very least," which the Navy hasn’t pursued.
Court-martial witness says Brown choked soldier who pursued him, by John Ramsey
Staff writer with Fayetteville Observer.com.
Minutes after Pfc. Luke Brown scurried under a fence into the woods, he started choking the first soldier who went in after him.
Sgt. Christopher Mignocchi, the first witness called by prosecutors in the court-martial against Justin A. Boyle, described Tuesday the events leading up to Brown’s death last summer. Boyle is one of seven soldiers accused of involuntary manslaughter for Brown’s death.
Fallujah defendant admits killing, pleads guilty to dereliction of duty
Sgt. Jermaine Nelson will not get any jail time and could get honorable discharge, attorney says. (Note: this comment is a potential problem. In the military system, the judge is not supposed to know the terms of the agreement until he or she announces the sentence in open court.)
Sgt Nelson pleaded guilty to two specifications of dereliction of duty in connection with the shooting death of an unarmed detainee during the opening hours of the November 2004 battle for the Iraqi city of Fallujah.
By Cathy Harper, ABC News, September 29, 2009 12:25:00
Police say the brawl involved at least 35 people, and was watched by 300 others. (Reuters: Stephen Hird) Two US soldiers have appeared in the Darwin Magistrates Court on charges relating to a brawl on Darwin’s nightclub strip. The magistrate says he has no authority to transfer the case to U.S. jurisdiction.
Actually he doesn’t need to, no double jeopardy. Here is a link to the U.S. – Australia Status of Forces Agreement.
September 29, 2009, in Suits & Sentences.
Eight members of the U.S. military who challenged a mandatory anthrax vaccination have lost, again.
Like the phoenix this is an old story that is likely to rise again in light of the proposed DoD flu shot program. Don’t know about others, but I’ve already been contacted by several pregnant or nursing military personnel who want to refuse the flu vaccine because of concerns about their baby.
L.A. Now, September 28, 2009 | 8:56 pm
A court martial is to begin Tuesday at Camp Pendleton for the last of three Marines accused of killing unarmed prisoners during battle in Fallouja, Iraq.
Sgt. Jermaine Nelson, 28, is charged with unpremeditated murder and dereliction of duty in the death of a prisoner during the first days of the Marines’ mission to clear insurgents from the Anbar province city in November 2004.
Fayetteville Observer.com, by John Ramsey
Five enlisted men and four officers were selected Monday as the jury that will decide whether Sgt. Justin A. Boyle is guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a fellow paratrooper.
During jury selection Monday afternoon, a major and a colonel were dismissed, leaving a jury of four first sergeants, three majors, a lieutenant colonel and a sergeant major.
This is the title of a short piece on Caller.com. His name’s not Watada so he’s going to general court-martial.
Zoning laws have forced sex offenders in the Atlanta suburb of Marietta, Ga., to live in a makeshift camp in the woods—in spite of the fact that several of them own homes. According to the Associated Press, registered sex offenders in Marietta are being directed by parole officers to an encampment behind an office park—one of the few places in the town where offenders can live without violating zoning laws.
This is not the only location where sex offenders are being driven to homelessness. Florida has a particular town where the sex offenders are being driven to live under a freeway.
Does this help or hurt? Does forcing a sex offender into homelessness and drifting aid in the purpose of knowing where they are or JNIMBY.
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