Articles Posted in Up Periscope

Is the title of an article in the Cape May County Herald, by Jack Fichter CAPE MAY- A special court martial was scheduled for Tuesday Sept. 22 for Petty Officer Francisco Thompson who is charged with violating 14 punitive Articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The hearing was scheduled to begin at 9…

NMCCA now has an RSS feed capability on their Opinions page. This allows you to set up in your browser, or if you wish to receive the feed in your Outlook. The benefit to your Outlook is that you get fairly quick notice of a new posting without having to check the website. You will…

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…

That’s the headline from an article By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes, Mideast edition, Sunday, September 20, 2009 WASHINGTON — Two years after naval investigators uncovered a hazing scandal inside a Bahrain-based canine unit, including numerous cases of violent attacks and sex crimes, officials can’t say whether anyone was ever disciplined or demoted. Naval…

I posted an earlier decision of NMCCA about overcharging in CP cases. NMCCA has issued a decision in United States v. Whelihan, on the same issue. No sentence relief because the MJ did do a United States v. Quiroz, 55 M.J. 334 (C.A.A.F. 2001) analysis. NMCCA has also issued a decision in United States v.…

There are two MJ related articles in the September issue. A Specialized Society: Speech Offenses in the Military. Prosecuting an HIV-Related Crime in a Military Court-Martial: A Primer.

Airman Charged With Thefts From Police September 18, 2009, Tulsa World TULSA, Okla. — Several electronic gadgets that were stolen from the Tulsa Police Department were recovered when officers investigated a member of the military who was assigned to the agency’s Special Investigations Division, police said. This resonated with me a little because I had…

Here is an interesting commentary on: Justice lag Lt Col Jeffrey Chessani, a Marine Corps officer charged with failing to report or investigate the killings in Haditha, photographed at Camp Pendleton in June 2008. Charges against Chessani – and against six of the other seven men facing courts-martials – have since been dropped. Denis Poroy…