A Changed Man in Military Justice

Yesterday, I helped a young man navigate a guilty plea to sexually assaulting two women. Our firm was successful in reversing his convictions, and the family hired me to represent him on the ...

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Gauntlet Thrown – New SVC / VLC Writ Likely in Military Justice

In pretrial motions of a general court-martial that is being litigated at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, the complainant’s special victim counsel just threw her second notice that she is ...

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Part II Sexual Assault in the Military and the Presumption of Innocence

By Peter Kageleiry, Jr. UNITED STATES v. SILVA Last year I submitted an appellate brief on behalf of Master Sergeant Michael Silva that resulted in his conviction for rape x 3 being set aside.  ...

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Part I Sexual Assault In The Military And The Presumption Of Innocence

By Peter Kageleiry, Jr. Very rarely the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF) issues an opinion that forces military prosecutors to abandon a well-established but fundamentally unfair ...

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DNA Swabs, Genealogy, and Privacy in Military Justice

By Jaclyn Grieser DNA’s Role in “Catching” the Golden State Killer It was by pure coincidence that I finished Michelle McNamara’s posthumously published book, “I’ll Be Gone In The Dark: ...

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Holistic Approach to Defending in Military Justice

As I think about how to make my practice better and ways to innovate military justice practice, I constantly return to trying to find ways of helping clients navigate their experience.  As part of ...

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The Heart of a Gladiator – For Military Justice

This past week, the Army JAG Corps lost two of its own.  One out on a run before work.  The other by his own hand.  Though some may deign to judge that one loss is greater than the other, I ...

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A Military Civilian Defense Counsel Takes a Trip to the Trial Lawyer’s College

It was not so long ago that I came across a copy of the commencement speech I gave in 2000 for the Louisiana Scholars’ College (no jokes, okay?  It does exist).  My theme? Resist complacency.  ...

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Leave Your Ego at the Door FOR Military Justice

In military justice and elsewhere, always at odds in the heart of the gladiator (litigator) as she enters the arena (the courtroom or in any advocacy role really) is the tension between the win for ...

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Compassion Fatigue for Military Defenders with Wrongfully Accused Clients

Military defenders face an invisible threat known as compassion fatigue.  The America Bar Association simplifies the definition of compassion fatigue as the “cumulative physical, emotional and ...

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