Tag: Military Law and Precedents
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Fitzpatrick: “Now is the Time” to Expose Deficiencies in the Military Discipline System
THE ABSENCE OF GRAND JURIES HAS TAINTED THE U.S. MILITARY…AND CIVILIANS by Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III, ©2013 (Jul. 15, 2013) — If we don’t get the grand jury back, then we are lost. Anybody with the notion that a grand jury can’t deal with matters of national security I would quickly direct to the trial…
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Can Any American Now Be Court-Martialed?
MILITARY TRIBUNALS CARRIED OUT WITHOUT A GRAND JURY INDICTMENT by Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Apr. 4, 2012) — Editor’s Note: The Post & Email had previously reported on and investigated the court-martial of Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III, which Fitzpatrick stated was rigged and the charges against him contrived. He maintains that the Navy has knowingly…
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Military Law Manual: Authority to order courts-martial resides with the Commander-in-Chief
OFFICERS MIGHT BE PROSECUTORS, BUT THEIR AUTHORITY COMES FROM THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF by Sharon Rondeau (Sept. 19, 2010) —William Winthrop was a colonel in the United States Army who wrote a treatise entitled Military Law and Precedents first published in 1880 as a compilation of JAG opinions. The second edition was published in 1920 but shows…