PSA: Remove Fingerprint and Facial Recognition Off Cell Phone

Stop whatever you're doing right now. I don't care if you don't think you'll ever be suspected, you just never know. Why take a chance. Remove facial recognition, open capabilities, remove ...

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Dispelling The Myths Part 4

Messy military lawyer talking about trying to hopefully dispel some of the misinformation that’s actually been put out by the D.O.D. and various sharp representatives. The number four on my ...

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Dispelling The Myths Part 3

Messy military lawyer doing part three of hopefully trying to put out some correct information and dispelling some of the myths that I know I have heard even at briefings from Department of the ...

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Understanding TOXIC And COUNTERPRODUCTIVE Leadership

At the Law Office of Jocelyn Stewart, we routinely represent military leaders accused of misconduct ranging from sexual harassment claims to fraud and everything in between.  In recent years, a new ...

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Dispelling The Myths Part 2

Messy military lawyer here talking about dispelling myths that I have even heard when I was in processing. And I’ve certainly heard and overheard when I’ve gone to sit in on these ...

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Dispelling The Myths Part 1

Messy military lawyer here. Going to start another kind of group of videos where I’m hopefully going to be adding to some of the dialogue and hopefully trying to dispel some of the confusion. ...

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Reconciling My Own Mortality for Military Justice

Many people do not contemplate (at least not with any degree of seriousness) retiring in their 40s, but I would venture that many start to consider their own mortality at least as they start rounding ...

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Preserving Evidence

DO.NOT.DELETE.YOUR.TEXT.MESSAGES.OR.PHOTOS and backup your data to the cloud. Too often someone will call and tell me that they are being accused of a terrible crime and that they had evidence that ...

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Developing (Or Not) Uniformed Counsel for Military Justice

It is not my job to develop uniformed counsel. Each of the services has an organization charged with training its counsel. I do not work for them, although I am sometimes invited to collaborate and ...

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So You Lost Your Admin Sep Board – Now What?

A lot, that’s what. Like every other military command action, even when it seems like it is “final” it usually is not. Command approval must follow each process, and an administrative ...

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