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A Marine sergeant charged with faking battle injuries to get freebies intended for wounded warriors will plead guilty on Wednesday.

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.

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:…

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.

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.

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…

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…

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.

There has been some attention to sex and labor trafficking in the military, witness the issue of prostitution. Trafficking in Sex and Labor: Domestic and International Responses Presented by The University of Pennsylvania Law Review November 13th and 14th, 2009 at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, PA. Prof. Ammen, a member of the…