Title: … and Justice for All

 

Author: Rising Sun

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Rated: PG-13

Classification: vignette

Summary: The case of LaMott v the Judge Advocate General of the Unites States Navy

Spoiler: NONE

Disclaimer: First Monday and JAG characters portrayed belong to Donald P. Bellisario, CBS and Paramount Television. No copyright infringement intended.  All other characters depicted are purely fictional and any similarities to actual people are purely coincidental.

 

Author’s Notes: Part one of a cross over story arc that includes:

  1. The Pretender/Timeless
  2. JAG/Statutes of Limitations
  3. First Monday/… and Justice for All
  4. Star Trek/Cold Case

All available at http://www.geocities.com/jagrslc/cross_over/cross_story/onefftoc.htm

In case you print this you may vote at http://www.geocities.com/jagrslc/cross_over/cross_story/justice.htm

                                                                                                                                               

Feedback: This is a little different to the usual FF so I am really interested in readers thoughts.

 

Story Written February 22, 2002

 

 

Citation: 531 U.S. 98 (2010)

Docket # 347-2010/1407

Dates:   Argued on July 14, 2010
Decided on July 15, 2010

Advocate: Colonel Sarah Mackenzie, Unites States Marine Corps, argued the cause for petitioner the Judge Advocate General of the Unites States Navy.

 

Facts of the Case

Following the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces decision in LaMott v the Judge Advocate General of the Unites States Navy. The Judge Advocate General filed a request for review by the US Supreme Court.

 

Question Presented

1 – Is the reason that attempted murder is not regarded equally with murder because something has happened to interrupt the intent from being completed?

 

2 - Is an extension of the Uniform Code of Military Justice Article 43 – Statutes of Limitations from that of five years to that of infinity violate the Due Process Clauses of the Constitution?

 

Conclusion

You be a US Supreme Court Justice and decide by registering your vote.

 

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