By Lt Col Charles Warren. What good is being a subject matter expert in the administration of military justice if you cannot convince your colleagues, your commanders, and when it comes down to it, the court-martial members, that your application of the law is not only the correct one, but the just one.
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Fighter Feedback: Utilizing F-15 Debrief Techniques to Improve Courtroom Performance
By Maj Benjamin Martin and Maj Mark Perry. Pilots use the post-sortie debrief as an immediate opportunity to draw out errors that occurred during the sortie…and internalize the lessons to prevent future reoccurrence. JAGs should adopt the post-sortie debrief methodology following courts-martial to improve trial litigation skills.
Read More »The Court-Martial of Private Vasily Shabunin: An Obscure Trial and Its Lasting Impact on Novelist Leo Tolstoy
By Maj R. Scott Adams. By the summer of 1866, Leo Tolstoy had been working on his titanic novel, War and Peace, for three years. During that midpoint of his work, Tolstoy’s masterpiece was briefly distracted by two men who visited his family estate and asked for his assistance. The men were junior officers from the 65th Moscow…
Read More »An Air Force Trial Counsel’s Guide to RCM 810 Sentencing Rehearings
By Major Mark E. Coon and Captain Matthew L. Blyth. We offer this article as a trial counsel’s guide to the confusing and infrequently seen RCM 810 sentencing rehearing. It should be of assistance to trial counsel serving at the base-level office, as well as to general court-martial convening authority advisors...
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