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Marine faces trial over urination on corpses
A Marine officer in charge of snipers shown in a 2011 video urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters Afghanistan will be court-martialed.
Intimate texts released in sex case against Fort Bragg general
Text messages between a general facing a court-martial in North Carolina and the woman that accuses him of forcible sex show a relationship that was sometimes playful and at other times angry.
Criminal Practice – Habeas Corpus – Court Martial – No Prior Collateral Review – Rape & Murder Retrial
Hennis v. Hemlick A former soldier who was acquitted of rape and murder as an enlisted man in 1989 on retrial and now faces the same charges again after DNA testing in 2006 implicated him for the same crime, cannot avoid court-martial with a federal habeas petition; the 4th Circuit upholds “Councilman” abstention, as defendant must exhaust all available remedies within the military ju[...]
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