Army Times reports.
The defense does not plan to present any evidence when a military hearing resumes next week for the Army psychiatrist charged in last year’s deadly Fort Hood shootings, the lead defense attorney said Tuesday.
John Galligan said the government had offered “no surprises” in presenting its case against Maj. Nidal Hasan during two weeks of testimony in October.
Kate Wiltrout at Virginia Pilot reports:
The XO of USS SAN ANTONIO
has chosen to go to a court-martial on charges he was negligent on the day a sailor was lost at sea last year.
Huffington Post is reporting on the Toussaint case.
A senior chief who was censured by the Secretary of the Navy for hazing sailors under his command may retire with a full pension, Navy officials say.
Since it was announced last October, the terms of Michael Toussaint’s retirement have come under scrutiny that is unprecedented for an enlisted sailor. The senior chief petty officer, who from 2005 to 2006 led a Bahrain-based canine unit that was plagued by widespread documented abuse, denied much of his alleged misconduct in February during a retirement board hearing, a proceeding normally reserved for commissioned officers.
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.
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