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A court-martial (plural courts-martial or courts martial, as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court. A court-martial is empowered to determine the guilt of members of the armed forces subject to military law, and, if the defendant is found guilty, to decide upon punishment.
People who were court-martialed by the United States military (3 C, 1 P) Pages in category "People who were court-martialed" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total.
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Washington also shares that similar to the film, Adams was "threatened with being court-martialed." "In real life, she was court-martialed," Washington tells TODAY.com. "But because, as she says ...
A general court-martial is the only forum that may adjudge a sentence to death. Before a case goes to a general court-martial, a pretrial investigation under Article 32 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice must be conducted, unless waived by the accused; this is the equivalent to a civilian grand jury process. An accused before a general ...
Johnson Whittaker, a black cadet at West Point, is attacked by three fellow students. The school administrators court-martial Whittaker in the mistaken belief that he staged his own attack, supposedly to avoid a philosophy exam. The assault on him by fellow cadets quickly makes its way into the press and gained widespread attention.
Initially, Whittaker was held by a court of inquiry, where he was defended by Martin I. Townsend and his old friend, Richard Greener, and finally granted a court-martial. [7] After more than a year of nationally publicized hearings, Whittaker was found guilty in an 1881 court martial of staging the attack, and expelled from West Point.
The pair were sentenced for kidnapping and killing 20-year-old Hayden Harris, a soldier at Fort Drum in New York, after a car deal went sour. Sussex judge issues life sentences to men who killed ...