Sunday, April 05, 2009

This week in military justice -- 5 April 2009 edition

This week at the Supreme Court: I know of no expected military justice activity at the Supremes this week.

This week at CAAF: CAAF has no scheduled oral arguments this week.

This week at the CCAs: ACCA will be hearing oral argument on Wednesday in United States v. McNaughton, No. ARMY 20090089, on this assignment of error: "The military judge erred as a matter of law when she dismissed Specification 2 of Charge II on the grounds that assimilation of a state aggravated incest statute is preempted by Article 120, UCMJ."

This week at the court-martial trial level: The court-martial of Sgt Ryan Weemer for allegedly shooting an unarmed detainee during combat operations in Fallujah will likely go to the members early this week.

This week in CLE: On Thursday, the JAA American Inn of Court will present a lecture by Major General Daniel V. Wright, the Deputy Judge Advocate General of the Army, called "Civility and Professionalism in the Courts."

2 comments:

Cloudesley Shovell said...

So what about LCDR Kuebler being removed as defense counsel for Omar Khadr in Guantanamo? I can only hope there's more to this story than a pissing match between LCDR Kuebler and his bosses in the defense chain.

See here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090404/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_guantanamo_canadian_detainee

Phil Cave said...

Knowing both Pete Masciola and Bill Kuebler, this does seem odd.