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Army Lawyer, Issue 4 2019 U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps Issue 4 • 2019 Military Justice’s New Blueprint 2 Flagging Soldiers 26 Abu Ghraib 15 Years Later 48 Voir Dire in a Time of I I. ' “Me Too” l -. ' I ·~ -t 78 J 1 • - . 1111" ,. .;-;;-;,- ""'-- ... .. ' "'"' 16.;... : - _ -- ~ ... $"'" !! ' ~ .,, .. --- ... I . ~-- ·.·~-/ '·;"I; ,, -- "' ..... ·-- --· . .. - ): ~ / ~-- ~-. ( / 1 - -~ .i A W ~ II II IJ H o II -~ E 5 ,/JI I VE.2S-l'rY' o_J; V1~r., ltfl A :r-i::-.o~c ,",. ro' 'f'•~•• ¥a- ,, .a.& ID !5 ~ V,,(b SFC Thomas Coyne, Level 3 ACFT certified 27D NCO and current AIT instructor at Fort Lee, participates in a training session for the new Army Physical Fitness Test during last year’s World Wide Continuing Legal Education. Table of Contents Editorial Board Issue 4 • 2019 Captain Nicole Ulrich Departments Editor- In-Chief, The Army Lawyer 33 Assisting Legal Assistance Clients with Digital Estates By Major Jonathan C. Siegler Lieutenant Colonel Megan Wakefield Court Is Assembled Strategic Initiatives Officer, OTJAG 2 Military Justice’s New Blueprint By Lieutenant General Charles N. Pede and 41 A Roadmap for Leaders of SVCs Mr. Fred L. Borch III Major General Stuart W. Risch By Captain Nicholas K. Leslie and Captain Regimental Historian Aaron R. Matthes Captain Pearl Sandys News & Notes Editor- In-Chief, The Military Law Review 44 Mitigating Secondary Stress 5 Commemorating the 50th in Military Justice Major Courtney M. Cohen, Director Anniversary of the MJA of 1968 By Major Adam S. Wolrich Professional Communications Program, TJAGLCS Lieutenant Colonel Jess B. Roberts 6 RAJA Visits Vegas By James P. Gerstenlauer Vice Chair, ADA, TJAGLCS Features Lieutenant Colonel Keirsten H. Kennedy Chair, ADA, TJAGLCS 8 49th Staff Judge Advocate No. 1 Course Wrap-Up By Major Justin R. Wegner CW2 Matthew Casey 48 The Abu Ghraib Trials, Strategic Initiatives Officer, OTJAG 15 Years Later Lore of the Corps By Lieutenant Colonel Jennifer L. Crawford Mr. Marco Marchegiani Art Director, GPO 14 Two Lieutenants and an No. 2 Angry Russian Bear Mr. Sean P. Lyons Courts-Martial for Misconduct in the Editor 60 Prosecuting Human Trafficking Soviet Union During World War II By Major Matthew T. Grady The Army Lawyer (ISSN 0364-1287, USPS 490-330) is pub- By Mr. Fred L. Borch III lished six times a year by The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, Charlottesville, Virginia, for the official use of No. 3 Army lawyers in the performance of their legal responsibilities. Life Hack 68 Truth or Dare? The opinions expressed by the authors in the articles do not An SVC’s Dilemma in Handling necessarily reflect the view of the Department of Defense, the 21 The Blended Retirement System Department of the Army, The Judge Advocate General’s Corps What Leaders Need to Know a Client’s Potential Falsehoods (JAGC), The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, By Major Courtney M. Cohen By Major David A. Thompson or any other governmental or non-governmental agency. Mas- culine or feminine pronouns appearing in this pamphlet refer to both genders unless the context indicates another use. WRITECOM No. 4 The Editorial Board evaluates all material submitted for 25 Next-Level PowerPoint 78 Voir Dire in a Time of “Me Too” publication, the decisions of which are subject to final By Major Chase C. Cleveland approval by the Dean, The Judge Advocate General’s School, Presentations U.S. Army. By Lieutenant Colonel Megan S. Wakefield Unless expressly noted in an article, all articles are works of Closing Argument the U.S. Government in which no copyright subsists. Where Practice Notes copyright is indicated in an article, all further rights are reserved 95 Promoting Inclusion at to the article’ s author. No compensation can be paid for articles. 26 Flagging Soldiers JAG Corps Events By Major Jenna C. Ferrell The Army Lawyer may make necessary revisions or dele- By Colonel Susan K. McConnell and Major tions without prior permission of the author. An author is Joshua P. Scheel responsible for the accuracy of the author’s work, including citations and footnotes. 29 Creek on a Leash A Primer on the Clean The Army Lawyer articles are indexed in the Index to Legal Periodicals, the Current Law Index, the Legal Resources Index, Water Act’s Section 404 and the Index to U.S. Government Periodicals. The Army By Captain Nathan R. Menard Lawyer is also available in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps electronic reference library and can be accessed at https://tjaglcspublic.army.mil/tal. Articles may be cited as: [author’s name], [article title in italics], ARMY LAW., [date], at [first page of article], [pincite]. On the cover: The 1949 proposed plan for judge advocate officers’ quarters on the Grounds of the University of Virginia, drawn here below what was then the UVA law school. The Palladian layout is similar to the law school’s. The quarters were not built until 1957 to a more modern design, a simple rectangle, four stories tall. The building today stands as Kerchof Hall, which houses the university’s math department. (Courtesy: Facilities Management, Geospatial Engineering Services Archives, University of Virginia) A drawing depicting a view of the 1949 proposed JAG school at the University of Virginia. The blueprint of the building plan can be seen on this month’s cover. (Credit: Facilities Management, Geospatial Engineering Services Archives, University of Virginia). a cross-examination for the next day’s court-martial. The truth is that both the command- er’s call and trial preparation are vital parts of our practice. While we recognize that we have talented, motivated, determined counsel out there who can successfully tri- age and prioritize, the question remains . is that the best way to practice? We believe the answer is a resounding “no.” As such, Court Is Assembled we have decided to redesign our military justice practice. This redesign is actually quite simple. Dedicated, untethered trial teams sup- port our formations, generating expertise Military Justice’s New Blueprint from investigations to findings. Dedicated military justice advisors provide com- prehensive, expert service in everything By Lieutenant General Charles N. Pede and Major General Stuart W. Risch else—from chapters, to boards, to nonju- dicial punishment, to a General Officer Memorandum of Reprimand. The trial counsel will focus solely on litigating cases In April 2019, we announced what trials include a charge involving a sexual while the military justice advisor will we consider a watershed moment in assault. Motions practice is lengthy. There provide legal advice to commanders and military justice. We directed the rede- are far more contested cases, which means practice before separation boards. Splitting sign of our military justice support around counsel spend more time in the “crucible these functions between two attorneys will the world. We believe this will dramati- of the trial well” and expert witnesses are allow for greater expertise—both in litiga- cally improve the delivery of legal advice, utilized more than ever before. We con- tion and in command advice—over time. command support, and trial expertise. Our tinue to average double digit homicide trials predicate for this decision was our Pilot every year, and of course there is always the Developing Expertise Program and the recommendations of the potential for capital litigation. The focus of the redesign is to develop Board of Directors. As we enter the imple- Trial counsel are more integrated into expert litigators and expert command legal mentation phase, we want to highlight our their formations than ever before. All of you advisors across ranks. Our litigators are expectations of you. have set an incredibly high standard—pro- among the best in the world, but as we have viding premier legal advice, not only “on said before, you don’t have to be sick to get A Dynamic Practice demand,” but also anticipating where your better. This, again, is about improving. We Our justice practice is dynamic. The advice may be helpful to your commanders. should all seek to improve every day—it’s a court-martial practice of the ‘70s, ‘80s, and Counsel are available 24/7, thanks to cell fundamental part of readiness, Soldiering, ‘90s is not the same as the court-martial phones, VPNs, and Technology Next (all de- and the practice of law. This redesign gives practice of today—for many reasons. signed, of course, to make our lives simpler counsel the bandwidth to do just that. We now practice using four versions and more productive). We are also mindful of our amazing of Article 120, Uniform Code of Military And, at the same time, there are other Trial Defense Service (TDS) attorneys who Justice, arguably the most progressive serious court-martial cases—cases that work hard every day to represent their sexual assault statute in the world. That affect readiness and lethality—waiting in clients. We have begun hiring defense means our trial and defense counsel must the wings. The age-old maxim of “touch investigators to allow counsel an opportu- master all four versions. This is, indeed, every case, every day” is more difficult to nity to free up time to focus on litigation. rocket science. follow when commanders are calling and We have also said, time and again to staff In 2007, sexual assault cases made up a trial counsel has to decide whether to judge advocates and to commanders, they 18% of our practice. Today, 50% of our answer the phone or continue preparing must resource TDS. That is our going-in 2 Army Lawyer • Court Is Assembled • Issue 4 • 2019 IMPLEMENTING THE MJR The Military Justice Redesign (MJR) separates the roles of trial Advocates should consider in crafting their plans for this new counsel (TC) and military justice adviser (MJA) in order to develop structure.
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