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Air Force appeals court dismisses charges because of lack of evidence
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Extremism in the Marine Corps
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Drug testing in the recruiting service
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Devastating report confirming what many of us have been saying
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What can we do for you
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Sea Service arrest reporting
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Lost evidence
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Frankenstein military justice
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Under a Shadow of Doubt: Why Wormuth’s Firing of Wells Threatens Defense Counsel in the Military Justice System
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An appellate win for client convicted of sex offenses
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Secretarial UI+
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Article 15/NJP Refusal
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Defining meaning from words in a statute
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Unanimous verdicts Update
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Speed up post trial review
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False official statements
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Challenge MRE 311!
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A proposal for a new enumerated Article 134(1)(2) offense
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Rules of Evidence changes coming to a location near you
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Unanimous verdicts
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Another bad day at CAAF for the Fourth Amendment.
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Military ineffective assistance of counsel
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Military Coram Nobis
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Impeaching the verdict
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Discovery
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Double Jeopardy
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NDAA FY 2023, new changes in the offing?
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Another level for discharge reviews
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Regrettable errors by SVC and TC
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DNA–is touch or transfer DNA reliable evidence of guilt
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Can an alleged victim sue to stop discovery in a court-martial
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Sexual harassment
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Discovery by the defense
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New evidence rules?
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A good result
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Some useful articles for March 2022
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Unanimous verdict litigation
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Erroneous prosecutor arguments
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Mental Responsibility
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Alternate fee sources
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Accepting a pardon is accepting guilt?
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“Believe the victim”–encouraging a presumption of guilt?
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Short take on the military COVID program
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Marijuana legalization
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Compelled vaccination
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Compelled passwords
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SOR
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Big change in Army officer promotions
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Can you impeach the jury and their verdict
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A hobson’s choice–to testify or not where evidence or statements have been suppressed
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Problems in the “jury” room
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Cellebrite news
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Change, change, change
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New appeal route for discharge upgrades
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Forensic myopia
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Prior convictions
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Here’s a new wrinkle of retiree jurisdiction
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How much copying and pasting should you do
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Check them out
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Discharge upgrads
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Got a BCMR/DRB case?
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Confessions under Mil. R. Evid. 304(c) and “corroborating evidence”
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Suppression motions need to be broad and precise
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More serendipity
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Closing argument
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To do or not to do
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Bookends of a sort
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Preadmitting evidence
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Appellant’s access to the Supreme Court
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NIMJ sponsored event
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Credibility of a hearsay declarant
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jurisdictional questions
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Sort of SODDI
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Implicit bias
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Investigating special operators
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Communicated character
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Excited? There’s an exception for that
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Religious beliefs at trial
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Ethical considerations
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The Army is not alone
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Some notes from the NDAA
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NDAA item of note
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Brady
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Command responsibility for war crimes
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The GP is improvident?
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Presidential war crimes?
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MCIOs may lie, cheat, and steal, we don’t care
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2 AF attorneys potentially facing discipline
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Mil. R. Evid. 804(b)(1)
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In the ‘we are not alone’ category, the High Court of Denmark affirmed the findings and increased the sentence of a senior officer.
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ACCA website
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USNA disenrollment lawsuit
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This is why
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Brady delayed is justice denied
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Briggs, Collins, and Mangahas
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Statements against interest
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Fort Hood
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Change not coming soon
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A commander’s duty to punish
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Up Periscope 04112020
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FRE 404(b) changes effecrtive 1 December 2020
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A bit more on FS
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We may be seeing the last of factual sufficiency issues on appeal
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USERRA in the news
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Larrabee (temporary) wins
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Breaker Morant revised
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Up Periscope 20112020
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Thoughts on USvScott pending at CAAF
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SUPREME COURT
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NG and Domestic Operations
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Review of SA cases closed in 2017
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Rules of Court and Stuff
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An interesting CAAF remand
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Federal laws impacting the use of the military during interesting times
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Lorrance v. Commandant USDB
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Prior complaints in sexual assault cases.
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Worth the Read–a case of parole.
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The Orders Project
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Federal laws prohibiting military actions around elections
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How useful is SOR?
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Got an officer accused under Article 88?
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A prosecutor’s duty to disclose
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New AWOL policy in the Army
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Will you have to deploy to U.S. polling stations
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Election cycle
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A broader approach to “extramarital conduct”
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Civilian arrest and court-martial?
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Military Judge recusal
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UP Supreme Court
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The Supremes are back to public work
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Up Periscope 02102020
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Fort Hood
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Trial-Social Media Instructions
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9th Circuit reverses a conviction based on prosecutor’s closing argument.
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Lorance
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JSC Sec. 540f Report
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Symposium on civilian casualties
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“Ghost gun” Soldier AdSep’d
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A bit of history
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Challenging the Investigators
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NMCCA rule change
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AFCCA published opinion on post-trial (Moreno) delay
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Guns and lawyers
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How’s that speedy trial going
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Offenses aboard an aircraft
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Status of the 2016 NDAA
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Bergdahl
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Duty calls–a duty to Google
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Coast Guard links
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UCI
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On the horizon
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Bergdahl
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Witnesses
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Not good DCs
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Interesting legal issue
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Need something to read
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The medical exception in evidence.
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Jackson v. Navy
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Prisoner rights
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A lapse in time
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Old client
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And again
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Worth watching for
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Grazioplene redux
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Another contribution to the discussion of a commander’s authority
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Worth the Read on Confessions
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Motive to lie
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After the court is over
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Worth the Read (WTR)–right to silence
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Article 69(d) in the toolbox
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Double jeopardy at CAAF
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Very significant case for post-trial w/subjurisdictional sentence
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Corroboration is important
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Reid teaches
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Forensics
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A quickie on UMC
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Digital evidence suppressed
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Who needs PC
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Army RFGOS change
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Collateral effects of a court-martial
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Some guidance on MJA 2016
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Rube Goldberg
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Changing DNA
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Compelled decryption
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Evidence biases
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Ineffective assistance from an expert
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Sensible charging decisions
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Evidence collection at the hospital
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Confrontation of “science”
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Scope of the search
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SCOTUSBlog on Briggs, et. al.
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Suppressing that pesky search
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IAC in pretrial negotiations
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Joint possession
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The complexity of consent
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Abandonment of rank
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Canary, how about gorilla
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To catch . . .
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MIL. R. EVID. 801(d)(1)(B)(i) AND 801(d)(1)(B)(ii)
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Motive and gain
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Case of interest
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Ooops-darn those PTA’s.
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An interesting take on IAC claims on appeal
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Mostly predictable
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Briggs and Collins meet the Supremes
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Right to silence and the presumption of guilt
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Dubay hearing on United States V. Scott. not very productive
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Searching lawyers
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Searching car computers
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Forensic science?
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Prosecutorial discretion–WTR
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Striking testimony–ah–RCM 914
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Prosecutors discovery obligations
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New CAAF grant
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Military justice stats for FY 2018
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Suicide issues in the military
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History (220919)
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Know your Constitution
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Comparing systems–same result?
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Unfounded Sex Assault Charges Trending Up in DoD Reports
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A view from across the pond
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Dances of Justice: Tango and Rumba in Comparative Criminal Procedure
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Alcohol related decisions?
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I object, so let’s discuss that with the members
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Note of SOR
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Fourth Amendment happenings
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Worth-the-Read
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Upon taking command
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Don Rehkopf as a reminder to defense counsel
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Confirmation Bias and Other Systemic Causes of Wrongful Convictions
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Retirement after court-martial
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DC–you have to police the prosecutors, they won’t police themselves.
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Take that
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Minimum Supervised Release
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Voluntariness, consent, and all that
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Affirmative defenses–Macdonald trailers?
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Did you know
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SORNA
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Nullification of PTC credit
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Noteworthy Supreme Court petition
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How would Dostoevsky view a court-martial case from investigation to verdict
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Army online conduct guidance
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Army Deskbook 2019
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The harmful effects of law enforcement tunnel vision
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You are presumed guilty
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Don’t do speaking objections in front of members
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Statutory interpretation–plain meaning
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Going to confinement?
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When the prosecution requires a plea to a charge the accused isn’t provident to get a take it or leave deal.
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Another in the you don’t want to start reading the CCA’s evaluation of your case this way series
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You don’t want to start reading the CCA’s evaluation of your case this way
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Worth the Read
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AMRDEC is back–possibly still a temporary access
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New cases of interest
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How did this happen? — well, it’s a sexual assault case.
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Collateral consequences
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New Navy FOIA regulation
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Interesting reminder to understand pretrial agreement terms
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More on SOR
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Innocent or want a trial, but plead guilty anyway
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Presumptions in criminal cases
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Be careful who you talk to
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Can MRE 404(b) allow for an end-run around Hills and Hukill?
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MJ clemency recommendation
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Who controls
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Employment opportunity-possible VET related
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Why I raise Grostefon errors on your behalf
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Private internet speech is unlawful if an officer in the AF
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SOR
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Worth the Read (WTR) for 23 September 2018
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Canadian Court-Martial Appeal Court has decided an important constitutional challenge to jurisdiction
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Who writes the judge’s writings
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Supreme events
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Historical resource
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Put a little English in it
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Are photo’s reliable evidence
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MCIO fishing warrants
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Complete failure of PC denied govt GFE
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Taking that Hills
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What can the CA do post-trial
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A skunk is a skunk
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Check your records
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Novelty but not fun to the Appellant
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Is blood spatter evidence good
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Plea agreement waivers
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Security clearance updates
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New page on CGCCA
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A reminder on when to raise UCI
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A unit reminder
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What do you do after trial
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A reason to make false statements in a MSA case
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Worth-the-Read, grabbed few items
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Expanding the definition of CP and other things
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Motions and IAC
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Reasonable grounds (a quite low standard) is all that is needed to refer charges–not probable cause
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Discovery about MCIOs involved in your case
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Discovery information for drug cases
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Brady-Urinalysis (220618)
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Good news from SCOTUS today
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Who controls, you or the client
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Eyewitness indentification
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Worth-the-View
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Non DNA evidence in sexual assault cases
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Not just America
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SOR laws are punitive?
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Bluebooking, the bane of a lawyers life and a cleaner life
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Harmless error on appeal
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The rule of lenity
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The presumption of regularity
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Continuing problems of MRE 413 and 414
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UCI, the carcinoma
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Fourth Amendment exception NOT extended
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Customary law and punishment
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Post trial errors
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Double jeopardy jeopardy
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This is not new, it’s news, but not new
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Arrested, prosecuted, convicted
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Records of trial
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Yes, yes they can–a CCA can set aside a mandatory DD
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Sad, very sad, but to be expected?
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Prosecutor error condoned, perhaps encouraged?
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The more the change the less the same
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An Army “discovery” case of interest
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An acknowledgement that the military doesn’t support illegal drug use
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The impact of emojis and emoticons in courts-martial
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The SVC program
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Police and prosecutor misconduct
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False rape allegations–a timeline
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Why?
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You are not alone
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Missed opportunity
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Obedience to orders
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This is why Sex Offender Registration is complicated
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Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
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Punitive not collateral
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Let’s object
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Hills trailer park
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Army–partial return to the public
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Conflict of interest–at The Supremes
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Shaken baby syndrome–WTR
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How to decide what was decided in split decision with multiple opinions
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Task Force Purple Harbor
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Deliberate ignorance?
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Getting the cell phone
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A good mixed result
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The perils of sex offender registration for defense counsel
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The BH-8 case continues to fizzle
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Eyewitness identification for the defense and trial counsel
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What do you think?
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UCI in the jury box
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The sager comes to an end
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Pretrial agreement terms
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Discovery failures
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CLE required in your state, come to Williamsburg, VA
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Prosecutor games
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Worth the Read
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Victim impact input prior to sentencing
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Just interesting
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Ongoing military death case
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Military courts in the future
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Ineffective assistance of counsel
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Appellate deadlines and deadlines
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I quote
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CAAF at work
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Andrew McCarthy writes in National Review
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Marine general officer–lawyer–sent to jail
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Navy collisions at sea
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Interesting view of courts-martial in federal court
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Mens rea in military criminal statutes or charges
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A rampant problem in courts-martial? — WTR
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False rape accusations
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A looooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng time coming
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Are there perils in statutory interpretation at trial or on appeal
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Two CAAF cases to watch
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Judge Kopf ruminates on Brady and Giglio — Worth-The-Read
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Sentencing
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An unguide to the perplexed
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The Terlap sentencing issue
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A piece of history
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Dubay hearings in the news
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Sentence appropriateness on appeal
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Government appeals
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Federal incarceration Costs Significantly More than Supervision
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Can there be a foul but no harm
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More cases coming?
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Pending change to federal rules of evidence
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DNA may be too good and convict the innocent
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An interesting justification for a Brady violation
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A resource for Virginia’s veterans
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CAAF grants and sets-aside, with a remand
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A possible new development with vet’s and PTSD
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Two new Navy instructions of interest
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Challenge to sex offender registration in Pennsylvania
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UCMJ and MCM changes coming
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Copious rations and heaping servings
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Note for appellate counsel
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Supreme Court invalidates ban on social media for sex offenders
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How difficult is it to get a federal court to overturn a court-martial conviction
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No, sorry
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Collateral consequences
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