A Reserve Marine master sergeant at Camp Pendleton was sentenced to a reduction in rank and 60 days confinement after a court martial found him guilty of removing classified documents from files and possessing an unauthorized machine gun. The members acquitted Master Sgt. Reinaldo Pagan of other specifications involving the alleged mishandling of intelligence files…
Continue reading ›A Marine sergeant charged with faking battle injuries to get freebies intended for wounded warriors will plead guilty on Wednesday.
Continue reading ›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.
Continue reading ›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. The Washington Examiner has this little interesting point:…
Continue reading ›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.
Continue reading ›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.
Continue reading ›United States: Adventist, Non-Combatant, Sentenced to Jail by U.S. Marine Corps Court-Martial 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…
Continue reading ›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…
Continue reading ›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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