The Local (TL), Germany’s News in English reports:
As thousands of people celebrated the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, Victor Grossman feared he might be arrested.
Brett Neely meets the American defector who fled to communist East Germany after deserting from the US Army.
Arizona Star is reporting:
Court-martial proceedings got underway today for a Davis-Monthan airman accused of killing another D-M airman in 2007.
Military.com reports:
Airman 1st Class Apryl Sanders, a weapons manager for the 16th Airborne Command and Control Squadron at Robins Air Force Base, Ga., was named Miss Military last month by a nonprofit organization in California.
Wednesday, she e-mailed the contest organizer to refuse the crown.
For those following developments in United States v. Blazier, here are some status updates on Briscoe v. Virginia, from Prof. Friedman.
In Blazier (and a somewhat similar case) CAAF has granted the following issues:
No. 09-0441/AF. U.S. v. Joshua C. BLAZIER. CCA 36988. Review granted on the following issue:
A former Army soldier who claims he put child pornography on his cell phone to help law enforcement catch those who produced the images was sentenced Monday to 18 months in federal prison.
www.azstarnet.com
According to an alarming new report, 75 percent of young people ages 17 to 24 are unable to enlist in the military because they fail to graduate high school, have a criminal record, or are physically unfit. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and some of America’s top retired military brass will hold a news conference at the National Press Club Thursday to call for immediate action to address this national security threat.
See more at Military Reporters & Editors or MissionReadiness.org.
If you are following the military officer involvement in the “birther” challenges to President Obama, you will be aware of the status of the litigation. But what about this:
Army recommends ‘birther’ for promotion
Army ‘birther’ Major Stefan F. Cook gets a job at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
The Military Reporters & Editors website is pointing to a release by Missionreadiness.org, which says:
According to an alarming new report, 75 percent of young people ages 17 to 24 are unable to enlist in the military because they fail to graduate high school, have a criminal record, or are physically unfit. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and some of America’s top retired military brass will hold a news conference at the National Press Club Thursday to call for immediate action to address this national security threat.
CAAFLog is reporting that CAAF has granted the following issue in United States v. Blazier.
Whether, in light of Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), Appellant was denied meaningful cross-examination of government witnesses in violation of his Sixth Amendment right of confrontation when the military judge did not compel the government to produce essential Brooks Law officials who handled Appellant’s urine samples and instead allowed the expert toxicologist to testify to non-admissible hearsay. See Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 557 U.S. ___, 129 S. Ct. 2527 (2009).
I’m a happy man. I have been raising this issue in every urinalysis case I’ve done since Crawford. Unfortunately I’ve not been able to convince too many others to raise it. Finally CAAF is going to take a look at the issue. May well lose, but at least there’s a chance. You can’t win unless you raise the issue at trial.
A couple of new opinions from NMCCA address issues related to CP prosecutions.
United States v. Jones, III, has this issue:
WHETHER THE MILITARY JUDGE ERRED BY DENYING APPELLANT THE OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THE EVIDENCE BEFORE HE PLED GUILTY AND WHETHER, IN LIGHT OF THAT DENIAL, APPELLANT’S PLEA WAS PROVIDENT.
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