Reads a CBS News piece from SABILLASVILLE, Md., Sept. 21, 2009
Marine who Toured U.S. Touting Heroics in Afghanistan Exposed as Fraud
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 ever disciplined or demoted.
Naval investigators have confirmed 93 instances of hazing within the Bahrain Military Working Dogs Division. One sailor, who several times was forced to simulate oral sex on other men, was later kicked out of the Navy for being gay. Another committed suicide after being charged with failing to stop the abuse.
But naval officials say that as far as they are concerned, the case is closed, an embarrassing one-time problem that is now completely in the past.
Under Mil. R. Evid. 1102, if approved the change will become effective in courts-martials 18 months later (unless the DoD President says otherwise).
/tip federalevidence.com
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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 decision in United States v. Wilson. No surprises here a factual sufficiency case in which the prosecution concedes one of three sufficiency claims.
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 that she “objects to every order entered under the authority of this illegitimate regime.” She argues that should she deploy, she may be subject to international criminal sanction for violations of the Geneva Convention. CPT Rhodes’ request is available here: [PDF].
The Court unsurprisingly denied the request today, and has ordered Ms. Taitz to appear and show cause why she should not be sanctioned. The order can be seen here: [PDF].
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 a little because I had a case from this base some years ago where the thefts went the other way around – SF police to the local police. Where they getting the stolen items back?
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 CAAFLog.
Here is an interesting commentary on:
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 since been dropped. Denis Poroy / AP
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