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This is a piece on a soon to be released documentary on the “Pendleton 8.”  The blogosphere and twitter have been all-a-twitter. The documentary is intended to be a look on the Hamdania prosecutions, plus.  The plus appears to be:

The film is called Article 32, its title referring to the part of the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice that deals with preliminary hearings. It’s about the stress and strain of combat, the morally brutalizing environment of Iraq and the gaps between established rules of engagement and the will to survive.

Sikorski and Stewart feel that these eight men were made political scapegoats. Article 32 is meant to provide a full-scope view of what troops are being ordered to do in Iraq. They say their film sheds new light on both the events that happened that night in Hamdania, and the subsequent murder investigation.

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MiamiHerald.com		 An American soldier accused of killing five fellow troops at a counseling center in Iraq had been unraveling for nearly two weeks but the U.S. military lacked clear procedures to monitor him or deal with the deadly shooting spree once it began to unfold, a military report found.

The shooting deaths drew attention to the issues of combat stress and morale as troops have to increasingly serve multiple combat tours because the nation’s volunteer army is stretched thin by two long-running wars.
Key lapses in assistance, care, and observation of troubled soldiers.

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If you’ve been following Miller (sex offender registration issues) and Denedo (immigration issues similar to Padilla)(link to SCOTUSWiki documents), you’ve been following Padilla v. Kentucky.

Here’s a link to United States v. Miller, 63 M.J. 452 (C.A.A.F. 2006).

Here’s a link to an LA Times editorial on Padilla.

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Not completely off point, and it is Sunday.  I certainly remember a number of NJS and other military law related CLE’s using the movie Breaker Morant to discuss aspects of military law and justice.

So here is an article in the Sydney Morning Herald by an Australian military lawyer who argues that Morant and his co-accused Handcock should receive a pardon.

“Get it right, you b’s: the fight to clear Breaker Morant’s name,” Steve Meacham, SMH.

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Army Major Daniel A. Woolverton, appeared in court at the Eastern District of Virginia today.  He was charged with production and distribution of child pornography.

The report talks of peer-to-peer software, likely something such as Limewire.

Oh, and apparently he’s a judge advocate, according to Army Times.

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