Court-Martial Trial Practice Blog

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…

Courtesy of a poster at CAAFLog here is a link to the motion for a new trial and the affidavit given by Dr. Macdonell.

A general lost his joint command because he inappropriately touched female subordinates and made off-colored remarks in private and public meetings, according to the Pentagon’s top investigator. . . . Chambers has declined requests for comment twice, immediately after his dismissal and after Air Force Times obtained the inspector general’s…

Navy Times reports the Honors “debate.” In one view, echoed online by thousands of angry supporters, the risqué aspect of Capt. Owen Honors’ videos simply reflected shipboard life and were funny escapes from the often-tedious routine of deployment; offended crew members of the carrier Enterprise could simply look away. Honors…

The aim of this study was to model various social and cognitive processes believed to be associated with true and false confessions by exploring the link between investigative biases [1] and what occurs in the interrogation room. Using the Russano et al. (Psychol Sci 16:481–486, 2005) paradigm, this study explored…

Do you remember Marine Captain Zander?  A distinguished graduate of the Naval Justice School, and having participated in reviewing about 200 of his ROT’s a pretty good trial lawyer viewed against his contemporaries.  I posted about his activities in 2009, “I’ve been Zandered! Who remembers that name?”  Well he’s back…