Court-Martial Trial Practice

2010 Judicial Conference and Continuing Legal Education Program March 10 – 11, 2010 The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law 3600 John McCormack Rd, NE Washington, DC

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.

Courtesy of Christopher Matthews at CAAFLog. CPT Rhodes yesterday filed an “Emergency Request for Stay of Deployment,” alleging that her suit raises issues “of truly historical, in fact epic and epochal, importance” which demand reconsideration. Accusing the President of “fraud and trickery against the American People [sic],” the captain avers that she “objects to every…

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…

I recently posted the current status of a military birther law suit the other day. Subsequently the attorney filed a motion for reconsideration. Now a CA licenced attorney has filed an ethics complaint against Orly Taitz, for the rather choice language in the reconsideration request. /tip “Paul” a commentator on CAAFLog.

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…

Did Iraq veteran’s PTSD spark his shoplifitng charge? By Julia O’Malley | Anchorage Daily News. Do you have client accused of shoplifting, a senior officer or senior enlisted perhaps, a really good person who no-one would have imagined as stealing from the Exchange? Can you explain that? For some years I have successfully argued from…

“My Lai Mea Culpa” Hits Close to Home for UMKC Professor John Holt FOX 4 Web, September 16, 2009. Here is a link to some “history” of My Lai.

I have posted about various federal law suits by military officers seeking to avoid deployments because they do not believe President Obama is lawfully the present – here, here, and here. In one of those posts I asked the question about possible sanctions against the plaintiff and/or the plaintiffs lawyer for bringing frivolous law suits.…