Professor Colin Miller at Evidence Prof blog draws attention to a Wisconsin Law Journal article about a proposed change to Fed. R. Evid. 804. In September, the Judicial Conference of the United States adopted the recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules to amend Federal Rule of Evidence 804(b)(3)…
The Blackwater “incident,” several civilian contactor MEJA cases, have caused concern about the role and ability to control civilian contractors in a war zone. The international community will have the opportunity to take on [] definitional challenges within the next several years. The United Nations Working Group on the Use…
I posted a while back about an ongoing issue with the dog-handling unit in Bahrain. Here’s an update from NPR Youth Radio. Since then, a Navy officer familiar with the case has told NPR that the report recommended courts-martial for both Toussaint and another noncommissioned officer from the unit. The…
This is a piece on a soon to be released documentary on the “Pendleton 8.” The blogosphere and twitter have been all-a-twitter. The documentary is intended to be a look on the Hamdania prosecutions, plus. The plus appears to be: The film is called Article 32, its title referring to…
MiamiHerald.com An American soldier accused of killing five fellow troops at a counseling center in Iraq had been unraveling for nearly two weeks but the U.S. military lacked clear procedures to monitor him or deal with the deadly shooting spree once it began to unfold, a military report found. The…
A Marine sergeant charged with faking battle injuries to get freebies intended for wounded warriors will plead guilty on Wednesday.
If you’ve been following Miller (sex offender registration issues) and Denedo (immigration issues similar to Padilla)(link to SCOTUSWiki documents), you’ve been following Padilla v. Kentucky. Here’s a link to United States v. Miller, 63 M.J. 452 (C.A.A.F. 2006). Here’s a link to an LA Times editorial on Padilla. Here’s a…
Here is a link to the Report of the Second Cox Commission, published today.
Here is another article about Breaker Morant, by John Silvester in the Age. Rest in Peace? According to the article, the photo in my previous post on this is of Morant “moments before he was executed,” on 27 February 1902.