While no one sets out to get a DUI, tens of thousands of people each and every year find themselves with court dates to explain what exactly happened that night on the road. If you are a member of the military, it can be even more difficult to beat the rap on a DUI. Here […]

Thanks to hit television shows like JAG, which lasted an astonishing ten full seasons on the air, more people today have a better working knowledge of how the military criminal court works than ever before, but it would be foolish to assume that everything we saw on a television show is, indeed, accurate. Let’s take […]

While millions of people all over the world are familiar with the television show of the same name, the Judge Advocate General, or JAG, is the judicial branch of the US Military that presides over each and every branch of the US military, from the air force to the army to the coast guard. The […]

If you have recently joined the military, you may not be aware that the Uniformed Code of Military Justice is the law of the land. It supersedes state and federal law for members of the military, and although civilian law and military law are very similar in many ways, they are different and it is […]

Even if you aren’t a member of the active duty military, the words court martial conjure fear like no other. If you are a member of the military, a court martial can not only mean the end of your military career, but it can also mean hard time spent at a federal prison for the […]

When most of us hear the words court martial, the hair stands up on the back of our heads and images of gallows or electric chairs flash through our mind. While death is a possible sentence for some types of court martial cases, there are actually a huge range of penalties that a person can […]