Joint Base Charleston is reporting: Airman 1st Class Dustin Miller from the 628th Security Forces Squadron was found guilty at a General Court-Martial of three charges; Article 80 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice for attempted murder, Article 128 of the UCMJ for assault with a loaded firearm and…
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McElhaney on evidence. The Dirty Dozen: 12 Ways to Write a Really Bad Brief.
A government appeal
Here is CAAF’s journal entry for United States v. Prince. No. 11-6003/AR. U.S. v. Michael A. PRINCE. CCA 20100939. On further consideration of the certified issue, 69 M.J. 499 (C.A.A.F. 2011), the briefs of the parties, and oral argument, we note that when acting on interlocutory appeals under Article 62,…
Up periscope
Stars & Stripes reports: Six crewmembers from the USS Patriot face administrative separation from the Navy after they were found guilty of hazing during Captain’s Mast, Navy officials said Friday. AP reports: The Air Force has discharged an airman under the law banning gays from serving openly in the military,…
Collateral effects
You will recollect the Velasquez case. The issues of VWAP and ultimately a number of Navy JA’s getting fired. Stars & Stripes reports: A former Navy doctor convicted of wrongful sexual contact with patients in Japan and Kuwait had his medical license revoked by the issuing state of California on…
CAAF decides Marsh
United States v. Marsh. This was a case where the appellant was complaining about the TC’s argument on sentencing: an improper comment on his right to make an unsworn statement, and inflammatory comments. CAAF holds no improper comment on the unsworn, but there was improper inflammatory comment by the TC.…
Wuterich talks?
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=2579115n http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=2579115n
No relief from the pain
Navy Times reports: The executive officer of the Norfolk-based carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower was “temporarily reassigned” to staff duty last week pending the results of an ongoing investigation, Naval Air Force Atlantic confirmed Wednesday.
I never understood
jumping out of a perfectly good and operating airplane. Florida Wires reports (and it’s on FB to some of us) that: Sentencing for an Army sergeant convicted of murder has been delayed by a military judge after the lead defense attorney in the case suffered injuries in a skydiving accident.…