NCJ Number
230578
Date Published
2010
Length
101 pages
Annotation
This report presents an overview of matters pertaining to the administration of military justice under the Code Committee on Military Justice for the reporting period of October 2008 to September 2009 with individual reports presented by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and the Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Abstract
Highlights of the annual report include: 1) in September 2009, there were 248 cumulative pending cases; 2) 105 dispositions (findings and sentence affirmed, reversed in whole or in part, granted petitions vacated, and certificate withdrawn) and 553 motions filed; 3) policy changes pertaining to initial military training for new judge advocates were refined for implementation in 2010; 4) in 2009, the caseloads for the U.S. Army Trial Defense Service consisted of 1,184 courts-martial, 451 administrative boards, 33,750 nonjudicial punishment, and 14,050 consultations; 5) in Fiscal Year 2009, 7 Naval Justice School instructors deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in support of Overseas Contingency Operations (OCOs); 6) at the end of FY 2009, 354 Air Force personnel were in confinement; of those, 84 inmates were in long-term confinement at the Unite States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, KS, and 50 were serving their sentence in the Federal Bureau of Prisons system; and 7) in FY 2009, there were 45 courts martial in the U.S. Coast Guard (12- general, 19- special, and 14-summary courts-martial). The annual report also contains reports from the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the Judge Advocate General of the Army, and the Judge Advocate General of the Navy, the Judge Advocate General of the Air Force, and the Judge Advocate General of the Coast Guard. Tables, figures, and appendix