Articles Posted in general court-martial

Here is a link to the 29 September 2010, JAGINST 5813.1B, Standardization of General Courts-Martial and Special Courts-Martial Verbatim and Summarized Records of Trial.

Not all states allow a prior court-martial conviction into evidence.  But as the decision in Oliver v. Commonwealth, 60 S.E. 2d 567 (2005), shows, the Commonwealth of Virginia considers a prior special court-martial conviction admissible in sentencing. In principle, we accept that certain "wholly unconstitutional" convictions can be collaterally attacked…

An Air Force colonel will be forced to retire as a first lieutenant, an Air Force review determined. Col. Michael D. Murphy, convicted in April 2009 by a general court-martial for failing to tell the Air Force he was disbarred as an attorney in 1984, will be retired from the…