Court-Martial Trial Practice

This is a piece on a soon to be released documentary on the “Pendleton 8.” The blogosphere and twitter have been all-a-twitter. The documentary is intended to be a look on the Hamdania prosecutions, plus. The plus appears to be: The film is called Article 32, its title referring to the part of the U.S.…

MiamiHerald.com An American soldier accused of killing five fellow troops at a counseling center in Iraq had been unraveling for nearly two weeks but the U.S. military lacked clear procedures to monitor him or deal with the deadly shooting spree once it began to unfold, a military report found. The shooting deaths drew attention to…

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

If you’ve been following Miller (sex offender registration issues) and Denedo (immigration issues similar to Padilla)(link to SCOTUSWiki documents), you’ve been following Padilla v. Kentucky. Here’s a link to United States v. Miller, 63 M.J. 452 (C.A.A.F. 2006). Here’s a link to an LA Times editorial on Padilla. Here’s a link to Padilla on SCOTUSWiki.…

Here is a link to the Report of the Second Cox Commission, published today.

Here is another article about Breaker Morant, by John Silvester in the Age. Rest in Peace? According to the article, the photo in my previous post on this is of Morant “moments before he was executed,” on 27 February 1902.

Not completely off point, and it is Sunday. I certainly remember a number of NJS and other military law related CLE’s using the movie Breaker Morant to discuss aspects of military law and justice. So here is an article in the Sydney Morning Herald by an Australian military lawyer who argues that Morant and his…

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.