Court-Martial Trial Practice

Two items in the new Army Lawyer. Working with Civilian Counsel: A Military Practitioner’s Roadmap  By Major Michael G. Botelho.pdf The Right to See: A Due Process Analysis of Access to Information in Army Adverse Administrative Proceedings By Major John T. Soron.pdf

There are a couple of interesting items in Vol. 224, MIL. L. REV. MILITARY JUSTICE INCOMPETENCE OVER COMPETENCY DETERMINATIONS, by Major David C. Lai. This is relevant to me because I have an appellate case where there are issues with the client’s current competency and there were at trial. ALWAYS ON DUTY: CAN I ORDER…

After a lengthy down time, CAAF and AFCCA are back on line.

The military does not have mandatory minimum confinement sentences (and I hope we never have them). But this federal case is certainly interesting. US v. Collins, No. 15-3236 (6th Cir. June 29, 2016) (available here).

It’s just sad that the public, and more importantly practitioners before the court have to rely on handouts from colleagues to get news out there about events in the CAAF. Here’s another. In United States v. Commisso, CAAF has granted on the following issue. WHETHER THE MILITARY JUDGE ABUSED HIS DISCRETION IN DENYING THE DEFENSE’S…

A friend brought to my attention this little item for our weekend reading. NOTES: PROSECUTORIAL POWER AND THE LEGITIMACY OF THE MILITARY JUSTICE SYSTEM. 123 HARVARD L. REV. 937 (2010). Is the concluding paragraph correct? The modern military justice system suggests an alternative model of institutional design: it emerged as a made order with legitimacy…

Since Denedo, and definitely since Padilla, military defense counsel must tell a client about the potential for deportation. A former U.S. Marine from Jamaica who was convicted by special court-martial of having sex with a girl younger than 16 is eligible for deportation, the Third Circuit ruled. Gurson Gourzong, a native of Jamaica, was admitted…

The Department of Defense (DoD) is publishing this notice to announce that it is renewing the charter for the Judicial Proceedings Since Fiscal Year 2012 Amendments Panel (“the Panel”).

The National Post (Canada) reports: The Canadian Forces has distributed 120,000 wallet-size cards to military personnel to remind them that sexual assault is an “inappropriate” behaviour. The cards are to be carried by military staff on the job, including when they are sent overseas. But a critic of how the Canadian Forces has been handling…

I came across a couple of Air Force opinions and have posted about habeas corpus and coram nobis. https://www.court-martial.com/habeas-coram.html