Open-Door Policy Tips Step 1: Discuss with your military lawyer whether you are a good candidate for requesting an open-door meeting with the General. If you do not have a good military lawyer who you trust, consider hiring one. See (website link) on how to pick a good civilian military lawyer. Step 2: Request Open […]
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Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Civilian Military Lawyer These are a sample of questions to ask before hiring a civilian military lawyer. Have you ever been on active duty in the military yourself? Reserves are very different than active duty so it is important to ask whether the civilian military lawyer you are considering
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Sexual Assault Court-Martial FAQs These are some sexual assault court-martial FAQs with answers that can hopefully begin helping you navigate the scary world of sexual assault court-martials. This is just a sample of sexual assault court-martial FAQs – contact us to have all your questions answered by an experienced military sexual assault lawyer. If I
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The Fast Track NJP It has come to our attention recently, that the Marine Corps likes to pressure marines into doing a fast track NJP. Do not confuse this with turning down the NJP and demanding court-martial. This is different. The command will try to sell this fast track NJP as this great option when
Pretrial Confinement at the Naval Brig You are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty right? Then you may be asking why you or someone you love has been put into pretrial confinement at the Naval Brig or some other military confinement facility before your court-martial has even happened. Pretrial confinement is supposed to be
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Fighting Sex Assault GOMOR For GOMORS based on certain sex offenses, the option for local GOMOR filing has been removed. AR 600-37. This applies to both officers and enlisted Soldiers. For any of the below offenses (this is not an exhaustive list) the GOMOR must either be withdrawn and destroyed or placed in the Soldier’s
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Representation at an Article 32 Hearing Importance of Having Experienced Court-Martial Lawyer at Article 32 HearingWith the dwindling rights that are available to an accused at the Article 32 stage of a General Courts-Martial, attorneys can be tempted to not give this hearing the attention it deserves. For example, even though an alleged victim is
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Discharge Upgrades: The Final Stop Military Discharge Upgrades: The Final Stop Before Federal Court If you were discharged with a negative characterization of service from any branch of the military on or after December 20, 2019, then there is a new board of review available to hear your case for a military discharge upgrade. As
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Multiple Discharge Upgrade Attempts Have you already attempted to upgrade your military discharge without success? Many people give up at this point. But they shouldn’t. If you requested the upgrade without the help of an experienced military discharge upgrade lawyer, then maybe you just filled out the DD 149 or DD 293 and thought that
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The benefits of a Female Attorney There’s a lot of advice floating around about who your court-martial lawyer should be. At a minimum, you have to be certain your court-martial attorney: has much and varied military law experience; is actively practicing military law and not just doing a case here or there; dedicated to your
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