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.
The full congressional delegation of two senators and five representatives have petitioned the Army Clemency & Parole Board on behalf of 1Lt Behnna.
tip to Rob Gifford for fowarding articles from the NewsOK, and The Edmond Sun.
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.
A Marine reservist accused of removing secret documents at Camp Pendleton and sharing them with civilian law enforcement officials goes to trial today
A Fort Rucker soldier has been in a shaken baby case.
The USNA grad plead guilty to stealing from teammate lockers, using credit cards, and obstruction of justice. He was sentenced to a dismissal, one year confinement, and TF.
The DoD Joint Service Committee on Military Justice (JSC) will hold a public meeting on new proposals.
The notice of the meeting and the proposals can be found at 74 Fed. Reg. 47785.
For those not attending the meeting comments can be submitted in writing
A United States Marine Corps court-martial has sentenced a Marine, who came to a belief in non-combatancy shortly after signing a two-year re-enlistment, to seven months in jail, rather than separating him from the military. Observers say this is a highly unusual outcome for such a case, which is usually handled less drastically.
/tip, Adventist News Network.
Supreme Court.
On Tuesday, October 13, the Court will hear arguments in No. 08-651, Padilla v. Commonwealth of Kentucky. At issue in the case is whether a criminal defendant’s guilty plea can be set aside because his defense counsel affirmatively misadvised him with regard to the deportation consequences of the plea, and whether such misadvice constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment. A Denedo question.
CAAF.
Court-martial of 2 soldiers weighed in Iraq discipline cases, by Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY, 11 October 2009.
The U.S. Army is weighing whether to prosecute two soldiers charged with maltreatment and cruelty of their troops, including a soldier who committed suicide just four days after joining the unit in Iraq.
Ten soldiers testified over the weekend that Staff Sgt. Bob Clements and Sgt. Enoch Chatman regularly punished them with verbal abuse and grueling exercise. The soldiers also described how Pvt. Keiffer Wilhelm, 19, of Plymouth, Ohio, was hazed and treated roughly by Chatman and Clements before the private killed himself Aug. 4.
Here’s a neat article by Robert Fugate, Defining Terms of Art in Legal Writing, Texas Bar J., 748, October 2009.
/tip New legal writer.
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