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Ridge Hannemann Alkonis (born 1988) is a United States Navy lieutenant who caused a fatal car crash in Fujinomiya in May 2021 that resulted in the deaths of two Japanese citizens. A Japanese court found Alkonis, who at the time was a weapons officer aboard the USS Benfold at Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan, guilty of negligent driving in 2022 and ...
A total of ten military executions have been carried out by the United States Army under the provisions of the original Uniform Code of Military Justice of May 5, 1950. Executions must be approved by the president of the United States. [2] Executions require a Summary courts martial, they are therefore subject an automatic process of review. [3] The first four of these executions, those of ...
Courts-martial are adversarial proceedings, as are all United States criminal courts. That is, lawyers representing the government and the accused present the facts, legal aspects, and arguments most favorable to each side; a military judge determines questions of law, and the members of the panel (the military equivalent of a jury) (or military judge in a judge-alone case) determine questions ...
A US sailor who served in Japan was found guilty on Friday at a general court martial for attempted espionage, failure to obey a lawful order and attempted violation of a lawful general order.
When U.S. Navy captain Queeg shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the safety of his ship, USS Caine, in a violent storm, the executive officer, Lt. Maryk, relieves him of command; Maryk now faces court-martial for mutiny. Lt. Greenwald, a skeptical JAG lawyer, is made to defend Maryk. Greenwald becomes increasingly concerned as the court martial proceeds and questions if the ...
A US sailor who served in Japan has been accused of espionage by the US Navy and is facing a court martial on charges including communicating national defense information to a citizen of a foreign ...
Courts-martial are conducted under the UCMJ and the Manual for Courts-Martial (MCM). If the trial results in a conviction, the case is reviewed by the convening authority – the commanding officer who referred the case for trial by court-martial.
In February 2021, Bergdahl filed a petition in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to have the conviction and sentence expunged. [13] On August 2, 2021, the Justice Department filed a motion to dismiss Bergdahl's petition. [14]