Court-Martial Trial Practice Blog
Military.com has an interesting piece about military justice at Fort Carson.
Fort Carson Policy Targeted Troubled, Wounded GIs . . .
Civilian defense lawyers and advocates for troops say stories like Smith’s have become increasingly common at Fort Carson. The trend has its genesis in an email that the top military prosecutor on post sent to nearly two dozen colleagues in August 2009 in which he bemoaned how hard it could be to kick wounded or sick Soldiers out of the Army for misconduct.
“How frustrating it is,” Maj. Javier Rivera wrote, when a Soldier undergoing the Army’s formal medical review process used drugs or committed other misconduct. Army regulations required the medical case to be complete before the Soldier could be discharged, a process that often took many months. Meanwhile, Rivera wrote, “the Soldier continues to do whatever he wants and believes himself untouchable.”
But, Rivera wrote, he and the deputy staff judge advocate, Lt. Col. Steven P. Haight, had a solution. If Soldiers pending medical review were accused of using drugs, commanders and prosecutors should skip the regular administrative proceedings and court-martial them instead.
New Yorker has a piece on United States v. Hennis, entitled Three Trials for Murder.
The Navy Times reports that: The Navy’s inspector general for the Atlantic submarine force is investigating claims that pervasive cheating has tainted exams administered to enlisted sailors and officers as part of their nuclear training.