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Thanks to CAAFLog, here is a link to the above report. Here are the most pertinent sections affecting military justice trial practitioners. SEC. 512. MEDICAL EXAMINATION REQUIRED BEFORE ADMINISTRATIVE SEPARATION OF MEMBERS DIAGNOSED WITH OR REASONABLY ASSERTING POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER OR TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY. 1. Prior to administrative discharge a medical examination is required. [A]…

That’s my prediction when the first CAAF opinion will be issued.

Lance Hering has a shot at a clean record if he keeps up treatment and public service, by Kevin Vaughan, in The Denver Post, 10/06/2009 01:00:00 AM MDT. Lance Hering walks into the Boulder County Justice Center on Monday with attorney Sarah Morrison. In a plea deal, Hering was placed on probation. (Paul Aiken, Daily…

So goes the title of an article in News Tribune, by Scott Fontaine, published: 10/03/09 The Army’s decision to discharge famed war resister Lt. Ehren Watada on Friday won praise from anti-war activists throughout the South Sound and nationwide. “We’re very happy for Ehren,” said Seth Manzel, an Iraq veteran who runs the antiwar Coffee…

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, in the New York Times, October 2, 2009 A Texas soldier has been sentenced to three years in prison and dishonorably discharged for creating a kidnapping hoax to cover his absence without leave. Pfc. James A. Gonzalez was sentenced after he pleaded guilty at a Fort Hood court-martial to charges that…

This is the headline by Chris Roberts / El Paso Times Posted: 10/03/2009 12:00:00 AM MDT EL PASO — A Fort Bliss soldier who died in Iraq in August killed himself with a gunshot to the head, according to Army investigators. Four soldiers who have been charged with cruelty toward Pvt. Keiffer Wilhelm in the…

Three firms to compete for Army forensic task orders. A lot can be said about the services provided by USACIL. Regardless of how you view USACIL, they do not have the same kind of problems many state criminal labs do – the kind of problems identified recently in the Nat. Research Council review and report…

The Chicago Tribune has this short piece. Ex-soldier in Iraq slaying sent to Ind. prison, by BRETT BARROUQUERE Associated Press Writer, 2 October 2009. LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A former U.S. soldier sentenced to five consecutive life sentences for the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and the shotgun slaying of three of her family…

Courthouse News Service is reporting the following: A former Marine who allegedly used a government computer to access child pornography can’t be deported based on his conviction by special court-martial of violating military code, the 9th Circuit ruled. Honduran native Rigoberto Aguilar-Turcios was admitted to the United States as a legal permanent resident in 1996.…

This is the headline of an article in the Mideast edition, Stars & Stripes, Thursday, October 1, 2009 The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan has ordered a new investigation into a 2008 firefight that claimed the lives of nine American soldiers and led to allegations of negligence by senior commanders. Army Gen.…