The Chicago Tribune has this short piece.
Ex-soldier in Iraq slaying sent to Ind. prison, by BRETT BARROUQUERE Associated Press Writer, 2 October 2009.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A former U.S. soldier sentenced to five consecutive life sentences for the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and the shotgun slaying of three of her family members has been assigned to a federal prison in Indiana.
Courthouse News Service is reporting the following:
A former Marine who allegedly used a government computer to access child pornography can’t be deported based on his conviction by special court-martial of violating military code, the 9th Circuit ruled.
Honduran native Rigoberto Aguilar-Turcios was admitted to the United States as a legal permanent resident in 1996. Four years later, he joined the Marine Corps.
The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan has ordered a new investigation into a 2008 firefight that claimed the lives of nine American soldiers and led to allegations of negligence by senior commanders.
Army Gen. David Petraeus, who heads the U.S. Central Command, has appointed Richard Natonski, a Marine Corps lieutenant general, to handle the inquiry into events surrounding the battle at Wanat in Afghanistan, the command announced Wednesday. All the soldiers killed in the battle on July 13, 2008, were members of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment based in Vicenza, Italy.
NEWPORT NEWS
The family of a sailor slain in Newport News is pressing the Navy to court-martial and dishonorably discharge the fellow sailor convicted of killing her.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., has already weighed in, telling the Navy last month that the sailor, Darren W. Mackie, 22, should be dishonorably discharged "at the very least," which the Navy hasn’t pursued.
Court-martial witness says Brown choked soldier who pursued him, by John Ramsey
Staff writer with Fayetteville Observer.com.
Minutes after Pfc. Luke Brown scurried under a fence into the woods, he started choking the first soldier who went in after him.
Sgt. Christopher Mignocchi, the first witness called by prosecutors in the court-martial against Justin A. Boyle, described Tuesday the events leading up to Brown’s death last summer. Boyle is one of seven soldiers accused of involuntary manslaughter for Brown’s death.
Fallujah defendant admits killing, pleads guilty to dereliction of duty
Sgt. Jermaine Nelson will not get any jail time and could get honorable discharge, attorney says. (Note: this comment is a potential problem. In the military system, the judge is not supposed to know the terms of the agreement until he or she announces the sentence in open court.)
Sgt Nelson pleaded guilty to two specifications of dereliction of duty in connection with the shooting death of an unarmed detainee during the opening hours of the November 2004 battle for the Iraqi city of Fallujah.
By Cathy Harper, ABC News, September 29, 2009 12:25:00
Police say the brawl involved at least 35 people, and was watched by 300 others. (Reuters: Stephen Hird) Two US soldiers have appeared in the Darwin Magistrates Court on charges relating to a brawl on Darwin’s nightclub strip. The magistrate says he has no authority to transfer the case to U.S. jurisdiction.
Actually he doesn’t need to, no double jeopardy. Here is a link to the U.S. – Australia Status of Forces Agreement.
United States v. Gipson, ARMY 2007 0521 (A. Ct. Crim. App. 28 September 2009).
This case has an unusual [if mundane] procedural history.. . .
Appellant claims on appeal he was prejudiced by the SJA’s failure to serve him with new matters in the addendum, in violation of R.C.M. 1106(f)(7); and this court erred in its Reinert holding that (1) the government’s writ of prohibition was an extraordinary matter, and (2) the military judge did not have authority to grant appellant additional days of confinement.
Here is a good post from FederalEvidence blog.
Court denies motion to compel return of e-mail message after concluding the disclosure was not inadvertent under FRE 502(b) since defense counsel “had ample opportunity to discover and assert the claimed privileged status of the e-mail” and failed to do so, in Clarke v. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., No. 08 Civ. 02400, slip op. (SDNY Apr. 10, 2009)
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