He was acquitted on these charges but was described by the court martial judges as being " entirely unfitted " for his command.

Another exception is the perpetrator can be retried by court martial in a military court, if they have been previously acquitted by a civilian court, and are members of the military.

Eisenhower was even threatened with court martial for continued publication of these proposed methods of tank deployment, and he relented.

Along with the martial use of the drums, they also held a strong foundation in the court style music called Gagaku, performed in the castles and shrines across ancient Japan.

Nevertheless, he appreciated the Indo-Fijian contribution to the Military, and noted the success of Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed Aziz, the head of the Military's legal unit who was a pivotal figure in the court martial of soldiers who mutinied in 2000.

* 1944 – Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court martial.

* 1997 – Kelly Flinn, US Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial.

Admiral Bokhari ultimately demanded a full-fledged joint-service court martial against General Musharraf, while on other hand General Kuli Khan lambasted the war as " a disaster bigger than the East-Pakistan tragedy ", adding that the plan was " flawed in terms of its conception, tactical planning and execution " that ended in " sacrificing so many soldier.

For U. S. military cases, the Uniform Code of Military Justice ( UCMJ ) states that all charges except for those facing general court martial ( where a death sentence could be involved ) have a five-year statute of limitation.

In all supposed UCMJ violations except for those headed for general court martial, should the charges be dropped, there is a six-month window in which the charges can be reinstated.

On October 12, 1998 twenty-five soldiers in the Sierra Leone army, including Corporal Tamba Gborie, Brigadier Hassan Karim Conteh, Colonel Samuel Francis Koroma, Major Kula Samba and Colonel Abdul Karim Sesay, were executed by firing squad after they were convicted at a court martial in Freetown for orchestrating the 1997 coup that ousted president Kabbah from power.

* May 22 – Kelly Flinn, the U. S. Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial.

Posthumus and Imogen by John Faed Imogen ( or Innogen ), daughter of the British king Cymbeline, is in love with Posthumus Leonatus, a man raised in her father's court who is described as possessing exceeding personal merit and martial skill.

The notorious Coffin Handbills attacked Jackson for his court martial and execution of deserters, massacres of Indian villages, and his habit of dueling.

Unable to break Prewitt's spirit, Holmes orders First Sergeant Milton Warden ( Burt Lancaster ) to prepare court martial papers.

The conspirators were rounded up and tried by court martial.

Private Edward Donald Slovik — assigned to the 28th Division — chose a court martial rather than fight in the Hürtgen Forest.

He served on the court martial of Brigadier General Billy Mitchell and was president of the American Olympic Committee during the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.

He relieved Lafayette McLaws from command and requested the court martial of Brig.

The executions were illegal since they were carried out without a court martial or any other form of judgement.

When they arrived in Sydney, Bligh, backed up by statements from two of Short's officers, had Short stripped of the captaincy of the Porpoise – which he gave to his son-in-law – cancelled the land grant Short had been promised as payment for the voyage and shipped him back to England for court martial, at which Short was acquitted.

Jamison died in London at the beginning of 1811, however, so he did not have an opportunity to testify at Johnston's court martial, which was not conducted until June of that year ( see below ).

Bligh was to be reinstated for 24 hours, then recalled to England, Johnston sent to England for court martial, and Macarthur tried in Sydney.

On or about November 30, 1838, the Richmond court committed Joseph Smith, Jr., and his companions, Hyrum Smith, Lyman Wight, Alexander McRae, Caleb Baldwin, and Sidney Rigdon to Liberty Jail, to await trial.

On April 7, 1766, Graff arrived in Dresden where he was appointed court painter and teacher for portrait painting at the Dresden Art Academy, a post he kept for life although he got better paid offers at other academies, among others in Berlin.

Hence the natural setting of tragedy is the palace gate, the public square, or the court chamber.

A court may strike down a law on the basis of an intuitive feeling that the law is inimical to the numerical majority.

The Connally amendment says that the United States, rather than the court, shall determine whether a matter is essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States in a case before the World Court to which the United States is a party.

If the case is thus determined by us to be domestic, the court has no jurisdiction.

if a receiver or trustee for any such partnership or corporation, duly appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction in the United States, makes an assignment of the claim, or any part thereof, with respect to which an award is made, or makes an assignment of such award, or any part thereof, payment shall be made to the assignee, as his interest may appear ; ;

Accordingly, if it is not repealed by the Congress at its present session, I shall have no alternative thereafter but to direct the Secretary of Defense to disregard the section unless a court of competent jurisdiction determines otherwise.

But it is crucial that here, unlike Burford, the trial court was ordered to retain the case until the state courts had had a reasonable opportunity to settle the state-law question.

If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.

second, that both actual and pending desegregation is, with few exceptions, the product or result of court order.

The action was a result of a court order, the citation for which ( and for other court action mentioned in this paper ) is taken from the Summary Report for this Conference.

Desegregation in Pulaski County is pending because of court order, although date of admission is not yet determined.

The record is clear that increase in school desegregation last year came largely as a result of a court order ; ;

Correlatively, can we reduce the role of the district courts, so that the action is that of the people of the community or other school district and not that of the law court??

`` Unfortunately '', says Chief Postal Inspector David H. Stephens, who has prosecuted many device quacks, `` the ghouls who trade on the hopes of the desperately ill often cannot be successfully prosecuted because the patients who are the chief witnesses die before the case is called up in court ''.

Under the new rules, testimony is taken orally in open court in all cases except those of an extraordinary character.

First thing I did after my twenty-first birthday was go into court and have it officially changed, and this is something I don't tell everybody.

`` Actually, the abuse of the process may have constituted a contempt of the Criminal court of Cook county, altho vindication of the authority of that court is not the function of this court '', said Karns, who is a City judge in East St. Louis sitting in Cook County court.