Court of Appeals for the Armed ForcesUnited States v. Bench. The court has granted an issue. Whether Lying To A Witness About Appellant's Presence In The Courtroom To Secure Testimony Materially Prejudices Appellant's Sixth Amendment Right To Confrontation. A panel convicted Appellant of 2x sex abuse of a child and 1x indecent conduct. They sentenced him to 12 years, TF, RiR2E4, DD. Before AFCCA, and On appeal, Appellant raises five assignments of error: (1) whether the military judge erred when he admitted statements of a minor child to a therapist; (2) whether Specification 3 of Charge I (alleging sexual abuse of BC) is factually and legally sufficient; (3) whether the record sufficiently demonstrates compliance with Mil. R. Evid. 603 for one child witness, EC; (4) whether the Specification of Charge II (alleging indecent conduct) is factually and legally sufficient; and (5) whether the sentence is unduly severe. As we rely on the same law and standard for issues (2) and (4), we combine the issues into one analysis. We also consider facially unreasonable appellate delay as this opinion was released more than 18 months after docketing. I don't see anything in the AFCCA opinion related to the granted issue. Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals
Issues. (1) Factual sufficiency for desertion; (2) TC misconduct during sentencing argument on two grounds: arguing facts not in evidence and arguing mendacity despite lacking a factual predicate; (3) sentence severity; and (4) legal sufficiency. Findings and sentence affirmed. United States v. Thompson.
Issues: factual sufficiency on producing CP, inappropriate sentence, SOR is cruel / unusual punishment. Court dismissed the producing CP specification w/prejudice. Otherwise findings and sentence approved. United States v. Pullings.
Findings and sentence affirmed. Army Court of Criminal AppealsUnited States v. Gonzalez.
Issues. IAC--failed to call multiple witnesses with exculpatory testimony, failed to get expert assistance with false confessions, failed to file abatement motion because a material witness was dead; error in admission of GOMOR in sentencing (error but no prejudice). No IAC, no prejudice--findings and sentence affirmed. Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal AppealsBit o' HistoryChristofer Klein, US Whistleblowers First Got Government Protection in 1777. History, Sep. 26, 2019. The U.S. government has long made protecting whistleblowers a priority. In fact, just seven months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress passed what Allison Stanger, author of Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump, called the “world’s first whistleblower protection law.” Worth the ReadHugh McClean, Discharged and Discarded: The Collateral Consequences of a Less-Than-Honorable Military Discharge. 121 COL. L. REV. 2203 (2021). This Essay adds to the discourse on military discharges by examining the collateral consequences of discharge characterizations through a criminal law lens. This Essay argues that while discharges are technically administrative actions, they have been doing the work of criminal convictions in the military for some time. Since World War II, the lines between administrative action and criminal punishment have become increasingly blurred. Today, veterans who are disciplined through either process continue to be punished long after service through the collateral consequences of their military service. Tokson, Matthew J., The Aftermath of Carpenter: An Empirical Study of Fourth Amendment Law, 2018-2021 (September 28, 2021). Harvard Law Review, Forthcoming, University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 470, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3932015. Fourth Amendment law is in flux. The Supreme Court recently established, in the landmark case Carpenter v. United States, that individuals can retain Fourth Amendment rights in information they disclose to a third party. In the internet era, this ruling has the potential to extend privacy protections to a huge variety of sensitive digital information. But Carpenter is also notoriously vague. Scholars and lower courts have tried to guess at what the law of Fourth Amendment searches will be going forward—and have reached different, contradictory conclusions. Cheers, Phil CaveWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Comments are closed.
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