Tyndall AFB and Hurlburt Field, FL: Representative Case Results

Outcomes at or Involving Tyndall AFB and Hurlburt Field, FL

U.S. v. E-7, United States Air Force

A Master Sergeant is accused of the sexual abuse of a child, multiple specifications of assault consummated by a battery and aggravated assault by strangulation, arising from allegations during a custody dispute by his daughters. Cave & Freeburg, LLP, is retained and conducts extensive pretrial litigation, including successful motions to keep out the government’s propensity evidence, while developing a defense built on the clear contamination of the accusers’ stories. Based on these defenses, the government agrees to dismiss the charges with prejudice in return for the client accepting non-judicial punishment (NJP) and retiring!

Result: Court-Martial Charges Dismissed.  No Federal Conviction. Retirement Preserved.

U.S. v. E-5 United States Air Force

An Air Force Staff Sergeant is accused of the possession of child pornography and several misdemeanor level charges, facing fifteen years in prison. The airman retains Cave & Freeburg for the court-martial charges.  At trial, Mr. Freeburg was able to show through cross-examination of the government’s digital forensic experts that there was not evidence of knowing possession of child pornography.  Consequently, an enlisted panel acquitted the airman of the possession of child pornography and only convicted him of grabbing a person’s wrists and destroying a phone.  He was sentenced to be reduced from E-5 to E-4 and twenty days of confinement.

Result: Not Guilty of All Child Pornography Charges, No Sex Offender Registration, No Punitive Discharge.

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