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This week Mr. Conway will be doing an administrative separation board involving the innocent oral ingestion of cocaine. Often, prospective clients call us indicating that the have no idea how they tested positive for cocaine. Nearly always the amount of cocaine metabolite detected in their system was minimal.I’m frequently reminded of the now famous Randy...

Mr. Conway had a nice result in Washington DC this week. It was an officer case involving a positive urinalysis for Percocet (oxymorphone). We originally turned down Captain’s Mast and demanded a court-martial. The jury found the client not guilty of wrongfully using oxymorphone.

The U.S. military opens combat positions to women Today will go down as a historic day in military justice circles. The Secretary of Defense has opened all combat occupational specialties to women. Policy arguments aside. A whole host of new legal questions are sure to flow from this decision.For example, will all women now be...

Garry Spence authored an interesting op-ed in USA Today. I attended the Death Penalty Seminar at Spence’s Trial Lawyers’ College. He is, without question, one of the great defense attorneys of our time. I have very little to disagree with in Spence’s op-ed. He cites to Mullenix v. Luna. Luna was a case involving a drunk driver fleeing...

An investigating officer has been appointed to investigate the bombing of the hospital in Kunduz. I have previously been quoted in the Washington Examiner that it’s going to be hard to identify individuals responsible. Targeting decisions are such a complex and high-level process. Assigning criminal liability will be difficult. But, I’m sure this will end some careers. See...

In an interesting case – United States v. Stevens, __ M.J. __, No. 201400330 (N-M. Ct. Crim. App. Nov. 10, 2105) The Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that electronic media without a tangible form do not fall within the definition of Article 121. Basically, the accused pleaded guilty to using a stolen credit card to...