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Thanks to a nicely and newly redesigned JAA website, here is information this years Appellate Advocacy Symposium. This is good training and good for those all important CLE credits for civilian attorneys. (Note, VA gives full credit for this one day seminar. I just checked my CLE records and we were only given four hours…

Army Times reports that: The military has released the name of the man allegedly shot to death by a fellow reservist at Fort Gillem. An earlier release said that the name of the suspect would not be released until there were charges. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that: The Army reservist gunned down by a…

Fox News reports that: Texas senator is demanding answers from the Air Force on the current status of the 10 AWOL Afghan military deserters, which he called a breach of national security. The initial number of Afghans being floated was 17. Now: Ten of the 17 remain at large after seven were accounted for, sources…

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that: The victim of Thursday’s U.S. Army Reserve post shooting and his alleged killer both apparently worked together, Army officials said Friday. Both men were full-time Army Guard reserve soldiers assigned to the Army Medical Professional Management Command, spokeswoman Maj. Lenora Hutchinson told the AJC. It’s unclear whether they both…

Have you seen these people? Military.com has this piece of information which is a little different but nuanced than other reports. Emery said it is rare for DLI students to go AWOL but it happens. An Iraqi soldier disappeared in 2009 but turned up in Houston where he asked for asylum rather than return to…

An Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking classified information to Wikileaks has still not been charged with any crime, three weeks after being arrested and put in pre-trial confinement. This is not an unusual time. Under Article 10, UCMJ, the government has a 120 window. However, that does not mean that the charges can or…

I posted yesterday about the Afghan military personnel AWOL in CONUS. Before it’s News now is tying this incident with this: In late January, Senators were warned that Al Qaeda is determined to stage an attack on U.S. soil by July 2010. This information circled the media for some time, as they continually pumped images…

Fox News reports that: A nationwide alert has been issued for 17 members of the Afghan military who have gone AWOL from a Texas Air Force base where foreign military officers who are training to become pilots are taught English, FoxNews.com has learned. . . . A senior Defense Department official in Washington told Fox…

First Quon, now the Army Times reports that: A federal appeals court says the search of a Virginia Army private’s MP3 player that found child pornography was constitutional. Here is a link to the decision in United States v. Rendon. While in the Army, Rendon’s MP3 player was examined pursuant to the standard intake procedure…

The respondent in Michigan v. Bryant has filed his brief and is found here courtesy of Professor Friedman (who indicates a likely amicus filing on his part). Here is the QP: Whether preliminary inquiries of a wounded citizen concerning the perpetrator and circumstances of the shooting are nontestimonial because they were “made under circumstances objectively…