Sentences with phrase «military judge»

In my own career, I was fortunate to have served four consecutive tours as a military trial judge, including two assignments as a chief circuit military judge.

With the recent highlight on sexual assault in the military, there are statistical reporting requirements that military judges meet through filing of case reports at the end of each trial.

In fact, for most military judges, the promotion track arises in a very different way than it does for civilian judicial colleagues.

Before his appointment as military judge in 2013, Gibson was a legal counsel with the Judge Advocate General in Ottawa.

Courts martial are similar to civil and criminal courts but they have an independent military judge overseeing the formal process.

Such service may be considered on the basis of actual duties performed by the applicant as an attorney or military judge in the military services, or

«Having guidelines to establish a court website will help different jurisdictions standardize their websites,» says Louis - Vincent d'Auteuil, a lieutenant - colonel and military judge with National Defence, Government of Canada.

Meanwhile, during lunch breaks and overnight, it is entirely possible that a military trial judge is performing duties that may be less related to the role of military judge, and perhaps more related to the obligations the individual has as a military officer.

However, because military members are ordinarily reassigned every two to three years to places outside their home state, and because their involvement in political events is limited under the Hatch Act, military judges often do not have the needed contacts to make them viable candidates for these types of key positions.

Military judges provide service members with judicial independence and impartiality.

MADISON COUNT Y - The Illinois Judges Association is proud to announce that Third Judicial Circuit Associate Judge Sarah D. Smith recently returned from three weeks in Charlottesville Virginia where she graduated from the 60th Military Judge Course at the Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School.

Justice Michael Gibson, an Ottawa - based military judge, has also been appointed to the Superior Court to replace Justice John Murray, who resigned at the end of last year.

When I was in the Canadian Forces most courts martial were tried before Military Judge alone — called a «Standing Court Martial».

Led by attorney Stephen Glassman, a retired Navy captain of the Judge Advocate General's Corps, and former military judge, Glassman & Michael, PLLC, is well placed to assist clients through legal issues with confidence.

The more serious and formal process is a court martial with a «legally qualified military judge» presiding.

TJAGLCS is also responsible for training officers appointed as military judges from all US military services.

While in the Eastern Circuit (Washington, D.C.), I was responsible for the annual appraisal of four military trial judges serving on active duty and two reserve military judges as well as two paralegal staff.

The Court Martial Administrator who acts under the general supervision of the Chief Military Judge, convenes courts martial in respect of charges that have been preferred by the Director of Military Prosecutions.

Military judges often choose to serve as members of an administrative law judiciary, where they are able to continue their service and use their highly honed judicial skills through a government organization.

Army Col. Jeffery R. Nance, the military judge overseeing Bergdahl's case, had ruled in February that Trump's statements as a candidate (and, therefore, a private citizen) didn't rise to the level of undue command influence.

When reached by SI, Rigsby, a District of Columbia Superior Courtjudge, was getting ready, as a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, to deploy toIraq for a six - month stint as a military judge overseeing trials for murder, rape and robbery.

«In addition it is clear that the military judged the carriers to be of secondary priority to other maritime capabilities.

A military judge has found that Bowe Bergdahl should serve no prison time for endangering his comrades by walking off his Afghanistan post.

The first was a military judge's decision to let off U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl with a slap on the wrist for desertion in Afghanistan in 2009.

A military judge found... Walker and Jackson met through an online dating site in September 2014.

Linda Emond This two - time Tony nominee appears in three episodes of «The Good Wife» (thus far) as Judge Leora Kuhn, a military judge whom Alicia argues in front of, and later helps on a case.

She was certified as a military judge by the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army and is the Illinois National Guard's first Military Judge under the Illinois Code of Military Justice.

At a pre-trial hearing August 9th, 2010, the Military Judge ruled that Mr. Khadr's «confessions» -LSB-...]

A Military Judge presides over courts - martial of members of the Illinois Army National Guard who are charged with offenses under the Illinois Code of Military Justice (ICMJ), which parallels the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

As I mentioned above, there are but four Military Judges, and I'm not clear whether it is required that one of these preside over every court martial, or whether this scarce resource is reserved for special courts martial.

A military judge is always appointed to each court martial, but some courts martial also include a panel, which is roughly the equivalent of a jury in civilan criminal trials (but not the same).

From the site of the Chief Military Judge:

I was recently introduced to one of Canada's Military Judges, learning that there are only four such judicial officers, which made me realize how little I know not simply about military law but also about the very structure of the military justice system.

A military judge ruled that five CIA - held detainees representing themselves pro se are entitled to use of a laptop with at least 12 hours of battery power to review documents produced in their case, but not to other 21st century accoutrements of «technologically advanced law firms» such as PowerPoint, scanners, a DVD writer and Internet access, reports The Miami Herald.

Given that the military judge presiding over the trial, Navy Capt. Keith J. Allred, had already decided to credit the former driver for Osama bin Laden for the 61 months he has already been held, the sentence means he could finish serving his time in just five months — a far cry from the 30 - year sentence sought by prosecutors.

CAPCJ presents, each spring, the highly regarded New Judges» Training Program, for provincial, territorial and military judges.

This process includes a military judge and five randomly selected CAF members.8 The judge acts as the trier of law, deciding the formal sentence, and the CAF members are the triers of fact determining a verdict.9 This is the type of formal process depicted in A Few Good Men.

In contrast, a Standing Court Martial is similar to a judge - alone criminal trial where the military judge wears both hats.10

Robertson's ruling came hours after a military judge rejected Hamdan's arguments that the military tribunals violate the Constitution's equal - protection clause because detainees are not afforded the same rights as civilians or as they would be in a traditional military trial.

A court martial may be by way of a General Courts Martial, which consists of a judge and a panel of five members of the Armed Forces, or a Standing Courts Martial, which is a military judge sitting alone.

Today, Justice Department lawyer John O'Quinn pushed that argument further, telling Robertson that detainees charged in the commissions have no access to the district court if a military judge designates them an «unlawful enemy combatant.»

Many of them pled out in front of a military judge, but I tried about 10 jury trials in the span of 20 months.

In addition to completing coursework for development of leadership skills, a military judge, like most judges, has the «paperwork» drill that has to accompany any trial to which he or she is detailed for service.