There’s a second part which I’m having a little trouble uploading right now. So, go to the YouTube and it should follow on from there. Note that in the second part Neal is soliciting funds NOT for Lakin’s defense, but for his life after the military.
Revising Harmless Error: Making Innocence Relevant to Direct Appeals Helen A. Anderson University of Washington – School of Law October 27, 2010 Abstract: The direct appeal of a convicted defendant is almost never concerned with actual innocence. The system seems to privilege procedural claims, and it is extremely difficult, if…
You will know that Neal Puckett was on the Peter Boyles radio show yesterday. The show continued today with Gen Valleley as the guest. This was (is?) a defense witness whose presence was litigated at the Article 39(a), UCMJ, session. According to Gen Valleley the court-martial process is corrupt, Military…
Army Times reports: The Army psychiatrist charged in last year’s deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage is to have a mental evaluation this week, his attorney said Monday. Maj. Nidal Hasan will be evaluated in the county jail near the Texas Army post as early as Tuesday by a three-member military…
The Columbian reports: Some people were taking the job of soldiering a bit casually on Dec. 6, 1941, says a Washougal veteran of World War II. It took one day to change everything. “In the peacetime Army, a lot of guys just took off,” . . . Officially, they were…
I posted the other day about discovery, the appellate courts are seeing a number of cases about discovery issues. ACCA hears oral argument in the Behenna case which presents the question of trial counsel’s failure to comply with Brady/Bagley/Giglio/Article 46 in the context of a motion for mistrial and a…
Not completely off topic, the Army Times reports: Soldiers are dangerously starving themselves, gobbling diet pills and laxatives — even going under the knife in costly liposuction surgery — all to meet the Army’s weight standards and avoid losing their careers.
Military.com reports: A Navy intelligence specialist stationed at Fort Bragg is in custody after an investigation revealed he allegedly sold top secret documents to an undercover FBI agent posing as a foreign intelligence officer. Apparently there were two meetings at which approximately four documents were handed over in exchange for…
Edgar Leopold Kranz. I have not received an answer to my email on his Facebook page. But a number of newspapers are reporting that (now) Master Sergeant Kranz was stationed at Minot AB. He was promoted t MSgt in 2006. Air Force Times is reporting he retired in March 2010.
I have always taken the view that disclosure of bad information about witnesses is a self-executing duty on trial counsel. I make this point because trial counsel often refuse to look into the background of it’s witnesses until the MJ orders that. The military judge properly concluded the government “had…