NIMJ has posted a GAO report on the “costs” of implementing DOD’s homosexual conduct policy. But beyond that specific issues there are interesting charts which show the prevalence of administrative discharges and reasons for discharge for FY2004 through FY2009. Look at Tables 13-15.
Howard Bashman at howappealing found this article. Today’s edition of The Montreal Gazette contains an article that begins, "When can a lawyer criticize a judge? Lawyers — as well as judges and professional orders representing lawyers across Canada — will be closely watching the outcome of a Supreme Court of…
Dayton Daily News reports: Court-martial proceedings have arrived in southwestern Illinois for an Ohio-based chief master sergeant accused of sexually harassing 10 female subordinates. Prior postings on this case are here. Marine Corps Times reports: A Marine was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for…
United States v. Soto is decided and the findings and sentence have been set aside. It was always my view that “terms” of a pretrial that clued the judge into sentence limits ought to go in the sentence Part II portion of the pretrial. So for example, a BCD striker…
Air Force Times reports: A promiscuous Air Force technical sergeant was convicted Wednesday of exposing multiple unwitting sex partners to HIV at swinger parties. He has been sentenced to eight years reports Military.com. Marine Corps Times reports: A Naval Academy senior and admiral’s son, charged with breaking and entering an…
You’ll remember the Reserve O-6 who had some public comments about the usefulness of management by PowerPoint. Thanks to my colleague at futurelawyer.com
Demonstrators rallied at Quantico in support of Pfc. Bradley Manning on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, singing civil rights anthem, “We Shall Overcome.” One protester tried to hand over a care package to Manning, who is in solitary at Quantico’s brig. It contained a donated CD, CD player, boxer shorts,…
Professor Friedman has posted the States’ amicus brief in Bullcoming v. New Mexico, along with some rather trenchant dissection of their sky-is-falling and we-are-the-government arguments.
John Galligan bemoans the lack of funding to develop mitigation evidence. The Hasan Defense Request for Additional Mitigation Funding, dated 7 January 2011, submitted to the Special Court-Martial Convening Authority, still has not been acted upon. By comparison, I am not aware of any funding request by US Army prosecutors…
Federal Computer Week reports: The Defense Department last year laid out the rules for the military’s use of social media with a set of guidelines that are set to expire on March 1. Now what? That’s the question that people are asking. [A] Pentagon spokesman today told Danger Room that…