Court Martial

Author : Chris Bray
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393243419
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Court-Martial: How Military Justice Has Shaped America from the Revolution to 9/11 and Beyond written by Chris Bray and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely, provocative account of how military justice has shaped American society since the nation’s beginnings. Historian and former soldier Chris Bray tells the sweeping story of military justice from the earliest days of the republic to contemporary arguments over using military courts to try foreign terrorists or soldiers accused of sexual assault. Stretching from the American Revolution to 9/11, Court-Martial recounts the stories of famous American court-martials, including those involving President Andrew Jackson, General William Tecumseh Sherman, Lieutenant Jackie Robinson, and Private Eddie Slovik. Bray explores how encounters of freed slaves with the military justice system during the Civil War anticipated the civil rights movement, and he explains how the Uniform Code of Military Justice came about after World War II. With a great eye for narrative, Bray hones in on the human elements of these stories, from Revolutionary-era militiamen demanding the right to participate in political speech as citizens, to black soldiers risking their lives during the Civil War to demand fair pay, to the struggles over the court-martial of Lieutenant William Calley and the events of My Lai during the Vietnam War. Throughout, Bray presents readers with these unvarnished voices and his own perceptive commentary. Military justice may be separate from civilian justice, but it is thoroughly entwined with American society. As Bray reminds us, the history of American military justice is inextricably the history of America, and Court-Martial powerfully documents the many ways that the separate justice system of the armed forces has served as a proxy for America’s ongoing arguments over equality, privacy, discrimination, security, and liberty.

Author : Francis A. Gilligan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780769866017
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Court-martial Procedure written by Francis A. Gilligan and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward M. Steel
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813187303
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Court-Martial of Mother Jones written by Edward M. Steel and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1913, labor agitator Mary Harris "Mother" Jones and forty-seven other civilians were tried by a military court on charges of murder and conspiracy to murder—charges stemming from violence that erupted during the long coal miners' strike in the Paint Creek and Cabin Creek areas of Kanawha County, West Virginia. Immediately after the trial, some of the convicted defendants received conditional pardons, but Mother Jones and eleven others remained in custody until early May. This arrest and conviction came in the latter years of Mother Jones's long career as a labor agitator. Eighty-one and feisty as ever, she was able to focus national attention on the miners' cause and on the governor's tactics for handling the dispute. Over the course of seven months, more than two hundred civilians were tried by courts-martial. Only during the Civil War and Reconstruction had the courts been used so extensively against private citizens, and the trial raised a number of civil rights issues. The national outcry over Mother Jones's imprisonment led the United States Senate to appoint a subcommittee to examine mining conditions in West Virginia—the first Senate subcommittee ever appointed to investigate a labor controversy. Public sentiment eventually forced a release of the prisoners and brought about a settlement of the strike. In the face of this overwhelmingly adverse publicity, the governor suppressed publication of the trial transcript, and it was long thought to have been destroyed. Edward M. Steel Jr., an authority on Mother Jones, uncovered the trial proceedings while searching for Jones's manuscripts amid private papers at the West Virginia and Regional Collection. This volume makes available for the first time the transcript of this landmark case in labor and legal history, including an introduction that provides background on the issues involved.

Author : Alexander Macomb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Practice of Courts Martial written by Alexander Macomb and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Department of Defense
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manual for Courts-martial United States, 1951 written by United States. Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This pamphlet contains a short history of the preparation of the Manual ... together with brief discussions of the legal and legislative considerations involved in the drafting of the book."--Pref.

Author : Michael M. Greenburg
Publisher : ForeEdge from University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1611685354
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Court-Martial of Paul Revere written by Michael M. Greenburg and published by ForeEdge from University Press of New England. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the American Revolution in 1779, Massachusetts launched the Penobscot Expedition, a massive military and naval undertaking designed to force the British from the strategically important coast of Maine. What should have been an easy victory for the larger American force quickly descended into a quagmire of arguing, disobedience, and failed strategy. In the end, not only did the British retain their stronghold, but the entire flotilla of American vessels was lost in what became the worst American naval disaster prior to Pearl Harbor. In the inevitable finger-pointing that followed the debacle, the already-famous Lieutenant Colonel Paul Revere, commissioned as the expeditionÕs artillery commander, was shockingly charged by fellow officers with neglect of duty, disobeying orders, and cowardice. Though he was not formally condemned by the court of inquiry, rumors still swirled around Boston concerning his role in the disaster, and so the fiery Revere spent the next several years of his life actively pursuing a court-martial, in an effort to resuscitate the one thing he valued above allÑhis reputation. The single event defining Revere to this day is his ride from Charlestown to Lexington on the night of April 18, 1775, made famous by LongfellowÕs poem of 1860. GreenburgÕs is the first book to give a full account of RevereÕs conduct before, during, and after the disastrous Penobscot Expedition, and of his questionable reputation at the time, which only LongfellowÕs poem eighty years later could rehabilitate. Thanks to extensive research and a riveting narrative that brings the battles and courtroom drama to life, The Court-Martial of Paul Revere strips away the myths that surround the Sons of Liberty and reveals the humanity beneath. It is a must-read for anyone who yearns to understand the early days of our country.

Author : Lake Headley
Publisher : Henry Holt
ISBN 13 : 9780805008937
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Court-martial of Clayton Lonetree written by Lake Headley and published by Henry Holt. This book was released on 1989 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shameful account of the trial and court martial of this American Indian accused of spying in Moscow who also became a scapegoat to protect others equally guilty.

Author : Douglas C. Waller
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061750638
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Question of Loyalty written by Douglas C. Waller and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Question of Loyalty plunges into the seven-week Washington trial of Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell, the hero of the U.S. Army Air Service during World War I and the man who proved in 1921 that planes could sink a battleship. In 1925 Mitchell was frustrated by the slow pace of aviation development, and he sparked a political firestorm, accusing the army and navy high commands -- and by inference the president -- of treason and criminal negligence in the way they conducted national defense. He was put on trial for insubordination in a spectacular court-martial that became a national obsession during the Roaring Twenties. Uncovering a trove of new letters, diaries, and confidential documents, Douglas Waller captures the drama of the trial and builds a rich and revealing biography of Mitchell.

Author : Chuck R. Mason
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437984339
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Military Justice written by Chuck R. Mason and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the criminal law system, some basic objectives are to discover the truth, acquit the innocent without unnecessary delay or expense, punish the guilty proportionately with their crimes, and prevent and deter further crime, thereby providing for the public order. Military justice shares these objectives in part, but also serves to enhance discipline throughout the Armed Forces, serving the overall objective of providing an effective national defense. Contents of this report: Intro.; Military Courts-Martial: Jurisdiction; Types of Offenses; Investigation; Types of Courts-Martial: Summary Courts-Martial; Special Courts-Martial; General Courts-Martial; Post-Trial Review; Appellate Review; Selected Procedural Safeguards. Illus. This is a print on demand report.

Author : Richard Hammer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Court-martial of Lt. Calley written by Richard Hammer and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The trial at Fort Benning, Georgia, of First Lieutenant William Laws ('Rusty') Calley, Jr.-- regarded by the press and the public as everything from hero to monster, from fall guy to scapegoat-- was the longest in military history and one of the most controversial. Richard Hammer has covered it from its convening to its close."--Amazon.com.