Court-Martial Trial Practice

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…

Here is a charge sheet for one of the accused, United States v. Morlock. Here is an official press release from JBLM.

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…

The U.S. Supreme Court decided City of Ontario v. Quon today. Quon is a case about searching pagers and cellphones. Our clients convicted of child pornography offenses and certain other offenses in which the internet is case related are restricted in computer access post-release. I mention Quon because of an interesting comment at Sentencing Law…

Sad to say some homecomings are not that good. As a CV SJA we always prepared for extra legal assistance business upon return from an extended at sea period. In one instance after cruise one Sailor returned “home” to find himself locked out and a stranger answering his “knocks.” Sad to say the spouse had…

TBO.online reports that: The soldier who tried to get into MacDill Air Force Base with a fake ID and a car full of weapons and ammunition is being transferred back to the Kansas fort he ran away from, according to the U.S. Army. Christopher P. Kilburn, 26, was assigned to Fort Riley on April 30,…

I first posted on this here. More information about the case is seeping out. Some of this may be circular reporting. Fox5News (Las Vegas) reports: The Army isn’t saying what motivated the killings of three Afghan civilians, whose deaths have led to charges against a Nevada soldier and four others from Washington state’s Joint Base…

World Net Daily reports that LTC Lakin, not unexpectedly, has received an adverse OER. Welcome to the club of just about every accused who faces court-martial charges.