Courtesy of Christopher Matthews at CAAFLog. CPT Rhodes yesterday filed an “Emergency Request for Stay of Deployment,” alleging that her suit raises issues “of truly historical, in fact epic and epochal, importance” which demand reconsideration. Accusing the President of “fraud and trickery against the American People [sic],” the captain avers…
Airman Charged With Thefts From Police September 18, 2009, Tulsa World TULSA, Okla. — Several electronic gadgets that were stolen from the Tulsa Police Department were recovered when officers investigated a member of the military who was assigned to the agency’s Special Investigations Division, police said. This resonated with me…
I recently posted the current status of a military birther law suit the other day. Subsequently the attorney filed a motion for reconsideration. Now a CA licenced attorney has filed an ethics complaint against Orly Taitz, for the rather choice language in the reconsideration request. /tip “Paul” a commentator on…
Here is an interesting commentary on: Justice lag Lt Col Jeffrey Chessani, a Marine Corps officer charged with failing to report or investigate the killings in Haditha, photographed at Camp Pendleton in June 2008. Charges against Chessani – and against six of the other seven men facing courts-martials – have…
Did Iraq veteran’s PTSD spark his shoplifitng charge? By Julia O’Malley | Anchorage Daily News. Do you have client accused of shoplifting, a senior officer or senior enlisted perhaps, a really good person who no-one would have imagined as stealing from the Exchange? Can you explain that? For some years…
"My Lai Mea Culpa" Hits Close to Home for UMKC Professor John Holt FOX 4 Web, September 16, 2009. Here is a link to some “history” of My Lai.
I have posted about various federal law suits by military officers seeking to avoid deployments because they do not believe President Obama is lawfully the present – here, here, and here. In one of those posts I asked the question about possible sanctions against the plaintiff and/or the plaintiffs lawyer…
September 15, 2009 1:56 PM TOM ROEDER, THE GAZETTE Two Fort Carson soldiers are scheduled for courts-martial this month for alleged sex crimes. The two privates from a bomb-disposal unit will be in court charged with the forcible rape of a female soldier at the post. Another sex crime trial…
Here’s a useful and timely article. Hafemeister & Stockey on Criminal Responsibility of War Veterans with PTSD Thomas L. Hafemeister (University of Virginia School of Law) and Nicole A. Stockey have posted Last Stand? The Criminal Responsibility of War Veterans Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan W ith Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder…
NMCCA has issued an opinion in United States v. Glass. This reads like another of the “can they do that,” cases I come across often. During the investigative stages clients constantly want to know “can they do that.” NMCCA’s answer is – well, yes they can – there is nothing…