Court-Martial Trial Practice Blog
Thanks to safeguardourconstitution
Articles Posted in Uncategorized
LTC Lakin sitrep
We finished around 1700 with the last government witness. Looks like the government will rest in the AM.
Dwight will be blogging a little later and we’ll be on RealityCheck radio at 2100.
Remember this phrase, “You have had your chance.”
LTC Lakin sitrep
LtGen McInerney predicats that the Republican Congress will investigate the case if LTC Lakin is convicted.
More at Wild Nut Daily.
LTC Lakin
There is an increasing disconnect between the “birther” movement and LTC Lakin’s case. Hopefully that “wishy washy” attorney representing him will make that clear when pleading for mercy.
The Post&Email has been following LTC Lakin and most of the other presidential eligibility cases. Recently they ran a piece about some “demonstrations” in Arizona in favor of Congress stepping in to stop the court-martial. A recent comment had this to say which may qualify for a humor in military justice posting.
I very much hope that Miss Taitz is going to attend and somehow convinces LTC Lakin to fire that wishy washy attorney Neal Puckett and let her take over the case. I have listened to Puckett on a couple of radio shows and he is already giving up and saying Lakin will be found guilty. He will not even say that Obama is not eligible. Why Lakin hooked up with this loser I will never know. He must be getting bad advice from Ms Hemenway or Gen. Vallalley.
Behenna and more
In September 2010, USA Today published the first of several articles about prosecutorial misconduct. In that article they discussed Nino Lyons who was convicted in a case where the prosecutors:
covered up evidence that could have discredited many of Lyons’ accusers. They never revealed that a convict who claimed to have purchased hundreds of pounds of cocaine from Lyons struggled even to identify his photograph. And they hid the fact that prosecutors had promised to let others out of prison early in exchange for their cooperation.
As we’ve discussed both types of information must be disclosed.
LTC Lakin
There’s a second part which I’m having a little trouble uploading right now. So, go to the YouTube and it should follow on from there.
Note that in the second part Neal is soliciting funds NOT for Lakin’s defense, but for his life after the military.
LTC Lakin
You will know that Neal Puckett was on the Peter Boyles radio show yesterday. The show continued today with Gen Valleley as the guest. This was (is?) a defense witness whose presence was litigated at the Article 39(a), UCMJ, session.
According to Gen Valleley the court-martial process is corrupt, Military Judge Lind and the generals above her should be court-martialed for allowing the corruption. He describes Military Judge Lind as the “Kangaroo court judge,” in this “kangaroo court.”
Apparently he’s trying to “light a fire” under the current defense team to go full NBC.
MAJ Hasan sitrep
Army Times reports:
The Army psychiatrist charged in last year’s deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage is to have a mental evaluation this week, his attorney said Monday.
Maj. Nidal Hasan will be evaluated in the county jail near the Texas Army post as early as Tuesday by a three-member military mental health panel, said his lead attorney, John Galligan.
Clemency and parole
PTA provisions depriving an appellant of parole and clemency consideration under generally applicable procedures are unenforceable under R.C.M. 705(c)(1)(B). United States v. Tate, 64 M.J. 269, 272 (C.A.A.F. 2007).
Big Pardon news
The big news in the presidential pardons world is that President Obama has finally granted nine pardons. Pardon Power blog reports:
682 days into his presidency, Barack Obama has finally discovered the clemency power by granting 9 pardons.
One of the nine is a military case from 1994 in which the accused was sentenced to 24 months confinement.