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The court-martial of six officers of the Bushveldt Carbineers ( BVC ), an irregular British force in the Boer War, was based on charges asserting that, between July and September 1901, a Lieutenant Harry Morant had incited the co-accused, Lts Handcock, Witton and others under his command to murder some twenty people, including the Boer commando Visser, a group of eight Boer POWs, Boer civilian adults and children, and the German missionary Heese.
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Oman, historian of the Peninsular War, noted that the maximum sentence was inflicted " nine or ten times by general court-martial during the whole six years of the war " and that 1, 000 lashes were administered about 50 times.
A ten-member, all-male court-martial was seated, consisting of four officers and six enlisted men — all of whom had served in either Iraq or Afghanistan.
By six votes to three, a U. S. Army court-martial found her guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced her " to be confined at hard labor for the rest of her natural life ".
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Before the buildup to the war gay servicemembers were court-martialed, imprisoned, and dishonorably discharged, but in wartime commanding officers found it difficult to convene court-martial boards of commissioned officers and the administrative blue discharge became the military's standard method for handling gay and lesbian personnel.
Dialog in " Court Martial " reveals that a court-martial may be convened in the absence of any JAG officers by three presiding command-level officers.
The next day, an angry Austin issued a statement threatening officers who chose not to follow orders with court-martial.
Usually, a court-martial takes the form of a trial with a presiding judge, a prosecutor and defensive counsel ( all trained lawyers as well as officers ) and ( in some cases ) a panel of officers ( and sometimes enlisted personnel ) acting as jury.
The film depicts a mutiny aboard a fictitious World War II U. S. Navy destroyer minesweeper, the USS Caine ( DMS-18 ), and the subsequent court-martial of two officers.
Although a court-martial might be presided by and prosecuted by officers, the instruments of execution are the ordinary weapons fired by members of the group from which he is being expunged.
" In September – October 1930, Frank served as the defence lawyer at the court-martial in Leipzig of Lieutenants Richard Scheringer, Hans Friedrich Wendt and Hanns Ludin, three Reichswehr officers charged with membership in the NSDAP.
Caracciolo, who had been caught whilst attempting to escape from Naples, was tried by a court-martial of Royalist officers under Nelson ’ s auspices on board the admiral ’ s flagship, condemned to death and hanged at the yard arm.
Thomas resumed his close ties with the second-in-command of the regiment, Robert E. Lee, and the two officers traveled extensively together on detached service for court-martial duty.
He also served on the " Court of Military Honour ," a drumhead court-martial that expelled many of the officers involved in the July 20 Plot from the Army before handing them over to the People's Court.
Sprengtporten had insulted the guards by giving precedence over them at a court-martial to some officers of his own dragoons.
Other ranks included majors of the court-martial and officers in charge of camp followers.
At his insistence, the court-martial convicts Billy ; Vere argues that any appearance of weakness in the officers and failure to enforce discipline could stir the already turbulent waters of mutiny throughout the British fleet.
At the time of the court-martial verdict, the jury of nine commissioned officers reduced Anderson ’ s rank to private and gave him a dishonorable discharge.
In the special court-martial, the trial resulted in judgement of guilt on most of the activist officers and citizens.
At the same time, the ' court-martial ' itself ( the panel of officers hearing the case and weighing the evidence ) has converted from being essentially a board of inquiry / review presiding over the trial, into a jury of military service-members.
King tried, unsuccessfully, to court-martial the officers responsible.
Over a thousand of his rebels escaped to Prussia, overland or by ship, where the officers were tried by court-martial, cashiered and imprisoned ( although all were subsequently pardoned.
Commissioned officers cannot be reduced in rank by a court-martial, nor can they be given a bad conduct discharge or a dishonorable discharge.
If a court-martial convicts an officer but imposes a sentence that does not include a dismissal, the Secretary of the officer's service branch may drop that officer from the roll ( official list ) of officers in that branch.
Byng was brought home to be tried by court-martial for breach of the Articles of War, which had recently been revised to mandate capital punishment for officers who did not do their utmost against the enemy, either in battle or pursuit.
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After World War II, a court-martial case was prepared against ex-SS Hauptsturmführer Max List ( the former commandant of Lagers Norderney and Sylt ), citing atrocities on Alderney.
The court-martial of Billy Mitchell ( standing ), November 1925.
Together with his ally Clement Walker, he presented articles of accusation against Fiennes to the House of Commons ( 15 November 1643 ), managed the case for the prosecution at the court-martial, which took place in the following December, and secured a condemnation of the offending officer.
Hunter served as the president of the court-martial of Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter ( convicted for his actions at the Second Battle of Bull Run, but for which he was exonerated by an 1878 Board of Officers ), and on the committee that investigated the loss of Harpers Ferry in the Maryland Campaign.
( Berlin, 1802 – 1805 ), and the report of the Finck court-martial in Zeitschrift für Kunst, Wissenschaft und Geschichte des Krieges, pt.
He took part in the subsequent successful siege of Wittenberg defended by the Electress, Sybille, following which Alba presided at the court-martial which tried the Prince-Elector and condemned him to death as a rebel against the Emperor, wringing from him the Capitulation of Wittenberg ( 1547 ), in which he was compelled to resign the electoral dignity and a great part of his territory to his cousin Maurice.
In U. S. V. Hooper, 26 CMR 417 ( CMA, 1958 ), Hooper was tried by general court-martial for sodomy, conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the Armed Forces, and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.
Ryan Gibson Anderson ( born 1978 ), is an American former Washington State National Guardsman convicted by court-martial on September 3, 2004 on five counts of attempting to provide aid to the terrorist network al-Qaeda.
A law student at Yale before the war, Hart is appointed by McNamara to defend the accused pilot at his court-martial, a trial to which the camp commandant, Oberst Werner Visser ( Marcel Iureş ), agrees.
Although this risked the lives of his animals ( and possible court-martial ), none of the mules died en route and Butt was praised for his initiative.
It is believed this was because D ' Oyly-Hughes was impatient to hold a court-martial of his Commander ( Air ), J.
Retiring with his battered ship ( which had suffered 17 men killed 53 wounded, and heavy damage ), Durham arrived in England in time to take part in Calder's court-martial anyway, as well as be a banner bearer at Nelson's funeral.
Regardless of the offenses involved, a special court-martial sentence is limited to no more than forfeiture of two-thirds basic pay per month for one year, and additionally for enlisted personnel, one year confinement ( or a lesser amount if the offenses have a lower maximum ), and / or a bad-conduct discharge.
In a general court-martial, the maximum punishment is that set for each offense under the Manual for Courts-Martial ( MCM ), and may include death ( for certain offenses ), confinement, a dishonorable or bad conduct discharge for enlisted personnel, a dismissal for officers, or a number of other forms of punishment.
An accused before any court-martial is entitled to free legal representation by military defense counsel ( ADC-area defense counsel ), and can also retain civilian counsel at his or her expense.
After World War II, a court-martial case was prepared against ex-SS Hauptsturmführer Max List ( the former commendant of Lagers Norderney and Sylt ), citing atrocities on Alderney.
Philip Spencer ( January 28, 1823 – December 1, 1842 ), a midshipman aboard the USS Somers, was hanged for mutiny without a lawful court-martial.
* Count Ödön Zichy ( 1809 – 1848 ), administrator of the county of Veszprém, was hanged on the 30th of September 1848 by order of a Hungarian court-martial, presided over by Görgey, for acting as Jellasich's emissary to the imperial general Roth.
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