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As far as I'm concerned, they should have handed out a Canadian passport to every terp who signed up to work with them. Without terps, the CF is nothing in Afgh, you can't do COIN and you have no HUMINT, all the army can do is shoot people.

Thanks for that input, Vern, but "Preponderance of evidence" means absolutely nothing in a criminal trial. That's the sort of 'evidence' that gets thrown out in the pretrials or causes hasty voir dires if a lawyer is stupid enough to try and introduce it. You're confusing it with civil lawsuits...

Yeah, well this was an open trial and the jury made its decision based solely on the facts entered as evidence at that well-reported trial, so we pretty much should know at this point on what facts he was convicted. Star Chambers and silent convictions have no place in the legal system.

Well, yeah. Both the prosecution and defence can appeal to CMAC, but only on the facts presented in court. It acts as a military Court of Appeals. No court decision is ever final unless it's the Supremes that issues it.

I claim no inside knowledge of this case, but you're absolutely, positively gonna see a joint sentencing recommendation on this one. I'd bet a truckload of beer on it.

I dunno. I'm not a lawyer, let alone a JAG, but I have spent a lot of time in court and he could get off with just a fine and/or reprimand. Given that he wasn't convicted of the principle charges, the judge has a lot of leeway when it comes to sentence. I'm really watching this with interest...

Who's the Rat? Someone who should have lied under oath?

Sorta. Courts martial only have the power to sentence an offender to terms of up to two years less a day at Club Ed. He goes into the federal system if he gets federal time. Here's hoping he doesn't.

In the absence of the death penalty, taking away a citizen's liberty through confinement is the most powerful sanction that a state can impose. Taking away someone's job falls below that.

You're not getting out of it that easily. You can register births electronically (in Ontario). https://www.orgforms.gov.on.ca/IBR/FAQ.html#howRegisterBirth

It's a bit like Schroedinger's Cat, isn't it? If he pumped rounds into a living body it was murder or attempted murder; if he was shooting a dead body, it's committing an indignity to a corpse. Neither crime of which he was convicted of. Hence my confusion about how he could be convicted of an...

From a legal POV, how can he possibly be convicted of disgraceful conduct if he was found not guilty of the actual acts (murder, attempted murder and negligent performance of duty) the acts for which, presumably, the disgraceful conduct conviction refer to?

Aw, damn. I remember Popeye and his Gator at CNS. Got a bunch of pics of him here somewhere. RIP  :salute:

Sorry for posting this, Mike. I saw it on a US milblog and thought people here would be amused by it, not realising it would be topic for patrol technique or dress regs, which as a civilian I know fuck all about. Plus, I've never been to Afghanstan and didn't know marijuana grows there. Or...

I just love this pic. ;D Our friends over at Strike Hold had an interesting post on the conflict between strategies of concealment based on Cold War — or just-past-Cold-War — doctrine and today’s combat environments. But little did they know what sort of treasure they had in this photo they...

Surprising fact is that the averge RMC acceptance grade is lower than you might think. Except for engineering. Those other pillars take time away from studying.

Lemme know how you like it when your doctor can't read. Which private school did your parents send you to when you were a kid given your distate for,  and lack of value seen in public education?

Wow. My dog could eat a box of Alphabits and throw up a better plot than that.

Nice Mikey Yawn parody here. Everyone knows by now that Brigadier General Menard is going to get a court martial. Menard is the Canadian guy who shot down a US helicopter while "accidentally" discharging his rifle because he was distracted by a hockey game. Was it really an accident? Now the...

Do they have Kijiji where you're being posted? Pretty soon nobody's going to bother moving anything anywhere when you can buy stuff from other people for five cents on the dollar.