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The Leaf Chronicle reports: Military training takes many forms, and it doesn’t always involve guns and explosives, occasionally the weapon of choice is law books and verbal assaults. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces on Wednesday heard the case of an Air Force staff sergeant at Fort…

Federal Evidence blog  has a nice update on S.448 which is the Senate version of H.R. 985.  Basically, although termed the “Free Flow of Information Act,” it is the reporters privilege rule that has been circulating for some time now.  Actual status?  According to the bloggers: Whether the Senate Judiciary…

FederalEvidence blog has a good post on United States v. Caldwell, __ F. 3d ___ (5th Cir.  October 26, 2009). For those of us doing a lot of CP cases – LimeWire, one of several peer-to-peer file sharing programs, is increasingly found to be the method by which CP is…

I posted earlier about Victor Grossman and his AWOL from the Army and defection. Here is a link to a book review of his autobiography, Victor Grossman (Stephen Wechsler), Crossing the River: A Memoir of the American Left, the Cold War, and Life in East Germany(Amherst and Boston: University of…

United States v. Garcia.  This case deals with the ongoing perplexing issue in Coast Guard (and Air Force) cases where recorded Article 32’s are not done and where the defense is prohibited from making their own recording.  A secondary issue was a removal of defense counsel without the client’s consent.…

There have been a number of bottom-blows in the Navy, going back to at least 1981, which is the first I remember.  Basically the Navy decides that they want to get rid of the bottom x% of poor performing Sailors. Stars & Stripes reports: More than 150 senior enlisted sailors…

Stars & Stripes reports: A Navy doctor faces 24 counts of wrongful sexual contact and is accused of assaulting at least 15 patients he treated in Japan and Kuwait since 2007.

All are straight legal denials on the merits.

You’ll recollect a while ago I posted about  USAF Demands Italy Lay Off Colonel in CIA Milan Caper Here is an update from the Washington Post.  Apparently the Italians didn’t put much stock in the U.S. arguments.  The lieutenant colonel along with 22 others has been convicted. An Italian court…