Court-Martial Trial Practice

United States v. Roberts, ACCA, May 2020. https://www.jagcnet.army.mil/Apps/ACCAOpinions/ACCAOpinions.nsf/SDD/E0488360186BFBEE8525857600509381/$FILE/sd-roberts,%20dl.pdf Occasionally a TJAG will refer a subjurisdictional sentence case to the CCA, which is what happened here. ACCA looked a two issues: sufficiency of the evidence and post-trial delay. Note, under Article 69(d), UCMJ, the CCA can only review for legal sufficiency and not for factual sufficiency.…

Colonel Rice was arrested for possession and distribution of CP. He was convicted in federal court and at court-martial. That is why we have a CAAF decision in United States v. Rice, __ M.J. ___ (C.A.A.F. May 21, 2020). I think part of the takeaway here is that the Government can’t charge under Clause (1)…

You all know that a client gets an automatic appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals when the sentence is for more than one year and/or a punitive discharge. You all know that a case with a subjurisdictional sentence gets a legal review and can be petitioned to TJAG under Art. 69(b). Also, you should…

John E. Reid & Associates agree that more is needed than a simple “I did it.” The reported interrogations of some of these suspects involved physical coercion, duress and outright torture. While the Supreme Court has consistently prohibited such interrogation practices, evidently the trial courts rejected the defendant’s claim that their confession was false. Traditionally,…

http://www.reid.com/educational_info/r_tips.html?serial=2019041603&print=%5Bprint%5D Some questions to determine if a statement is voluntary.

From Prof. Miller. Thursday, April 30, 2020 Thompson & Casarez on Blind Testing and Forensic Sciences By CrimProf BlogEditor Sandra Guerra Thompson and Nicole B. Casarez (University of Houston Law Center and University of St. Thomas) have posted Solving Daubert’s Dilemma for the Forensic Sciences Through Blind Testing (57 Houston Law Review 617 (2020)) on…

United States v. Martin, ACCA April 2020. On appeal, Appellant argued that six separate convictions of Art. 107 were UMC under the circumstances, but Appellant’s UMC claim never gets off the ground. Appellant contends that because the “criminality behind” his Article 107 convictions was not the statements themselves, but rather the fact that appellant made…

United States v. Taylor, NMCCA 30 April 2020 is a government appeal of a judge’s ruling to suppress evidence. [T]he military judge granted a Defense motion to suppress evidence resulting from the searches of 12 of Appellee’s electronic devices. We are asked to decide whether we have jurisdiction over this appeal and, if so, whether…

GA: Arrest for sex offense wasn’t PC to believe digital storage device on person had evidence; SW suppressed Posted on April 30, 2020 by Hall Defendant was arrested for aggravated child molestation and aggravated sodomy, and he had a digital storage device on him. Police sought a search warrant for the storage device, but the…

In United States v. Vance, ACCA 2018, the addressed RFGOS after changes to UCMJ but without any AR changes. It’s a little complicated so read the opinion. Today we consider what happens when, in violation of Article 60, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), the convening authority sets aside the findings and sentence in a…