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Here is how the blog Suits & Sentences reports United States v. McPherson. Army deserter lands honorable discharge, somehow An odd case recently resolved by the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals shows how a soldier convicted of desertion can still take home an honorable discharge. It’s all a matter of timing and regulatory ambiguity.…

This is the headline of an article on TheSlatest. Zoning laws have forced sex offenders in the Atlanta suburb of Marietta, Ga., to live in a makeshift camp in the woods—in spite of the fact that several of them own homes. According to the Associated Press, registered sex offenders in Marietta are being directed by…

This is the headline of a titillating article in by Travis Tritten, Stars and Stripes, Pacific edition, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 MANILA, Philippines — Master Chief Petty Officer John W. Bench Jr. appeared to be a model sailor on the rise, headed for a new assignment carrying greater status and expanded responsibilities. But on Aug.…

The title of a post on Military.com, September 23, 2009, by Ben Avey YOKOSUKA, Japan – The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Far East field office has started a public information campaign to get the word out about rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a person who commits or conspires to…

That’s the title of an article by Jeff Stein | September 23, 2009, on CQPolitics.com An Air Force lawyer has told Italy to lay off Col. Joseph L. Romano III, an officer caught up in a CIA counterterrorism kidnapping case. Romano is one of 26 Americans being tried in absentia by Italy on kidnapping charges…

That is the title of an article by Ashby Jones, on the Wall St. Journal Law Blog, pour encourager les autres. And do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily but eat and drink as friends. — From William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew We wonder, after reading this admonition from the Bard, just…

Is the title of an article by Trista Talton – Staff writer, Marine Corps Times. Posted : Monday Sep 21, 2009 6:26:12 EDT It was supposed to be a game. But now Nelson, 25, will spend the next eight years in prison for killing Malone with an accidental gunshot to the forehead — the result…

Reads a CBS News piece from SABILLASVILLE, Md., Sept. 21, 2009 Marine who Toured U.S. Touting Heroics in Afghanistan Exposed as Fraud In this July 22, 2008 photo, U.S. Marine Sgt. David Budwah is shown during a visit with children at Camp West Mar in Sabillasville, Md. (AP Photo/Herald-Mail, Yvette May) On a sultry day…

Courtesy of Christopher Matthews at CAAFLog. CPT Rhodes yesterday filed an “Emergency Request for Stay of Deployment,” alleging that her suit raises issues “of truly historical, in fact epic and epochal, importance” which demand reconsideration. Accusing the President of “fraud and trickery against the American People [sic],” the captain avers that she “objects to every…

I recently posted the current status of a military birther law suit the other day. Subsequently the attorney filed a motion for reconsideration. Now a CA licenced attorney has filed an ethics complaint against Orly Taitz, for the rather choice language in the reconsideration request. /tip “Paul” a commentator on CAAFLog.