uniform-code-of-military-justice

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A893 Thomas M. Adams v. United States Armed Forces 2026-02-06 Application appellate-jurisdiction court-of-criminal-appeals final-order habeas-corpus military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice Whether a military Court of Criminal Appeals retains jurisdiction to hear a writ of habeas corpus when a final order is issued prematurely before the …
25A610 Keegan L. Lovell v. United States Armed Forces 2025-11-24 Application child-pornography court-martial due-process guilty-plea military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice Whether a military trial judge's failure to fully explore a defendant's understanding of the elements of a guilty plea constitutes a due process viola…
25A426 Mark A. Pulley v. United States Armed Forces 2025-10-14 Presumed Complete court-martial first-amendment free-speech indecent-conduct military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice Whether a military conviction for indecent conduct under the Uniform Code of Military Justice violates a service member's First Amendment free speech …
24A288 Matthew P. Leipart v. United States Armed Forces 2024-09-23 Presumed Complete burden-of-proof court-martial ineffective-assistance military-justice prosecutorial-misconduct uniform-code-of-military-justice Whether a military prosecutor's reference to a defendant's guilty plea during closing arguments constitutes reversible error when the military judge i…
23A178 Andrew P. Witt v. United States Armed Forces 2023-08-25 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing court-martial death-penalty ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct uniform-code-of-military-justice Whether prosecutorial misconduct during capital sentencing proceedings in a military court-martial, specifically arguments urging panel members to con…
23A64 D'Andre M. Johnson v. United States Armed Forces 2023-07-24 Presumed Complete cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment military-confinement sentence-appropriateness uniform-code-of-military-justice Whether military officials may constitutionally subject a service member to confinement conditions that constitute cruel and unusual punishment in vio…
22-1015 Leon A. Brown, IV v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied Response Waived article-iii-courts burns-v-wilson circuit-split exculpatory-evidence military-habeas-corpus military-justice-act military-justice-act-of-1983 uniform-code-of-military-justice Whether the Court should overrule Burns v. Wilson
22-5043 Romeo Valentin Sanchez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-law enhanced-sentencing indecent-acts mandatory-minimum military-justice sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation uniform-code-of-military-justice whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in relying upon a now-excised provision to trigger a mandatory minimum penalty under 18 U.S.C. § 2…
19-795 Paul D. Voorhees v. United States Armed Forces 2019-12-20 Denied conduct-unbecoming-an-officer criminal-prosecution criminal-statute due-process mens-rea military-justice negligence negligence-standard rehaif-v-united-states scienter sixth-amendment uniform-code-military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice Does the mens rea principle apply to criminal prosecutions under the Uniform Code of Military Justice?
19-184 United States v. Richard D. Collins Armed Forces 2019-08-09 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) armed-forces court-of-appeals-for-armed-forces criminal-procedure due-process military-justice precedent rape rape-prosecution statute-of-limitations uniform-code-of-military-justice Whether the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces erred in concluding—contrary to its own longstanding precedent—that the Uniform Code of Military Jus…
19-108 United States v. Michael J. D. Briggs Armed Forces 2019-07-22 Judgment Issued Relisted (3) armed-forces constitutional-rights court-of-appeals-armed-forces due-process military-justice rape rape-prosecution statute-of-limitations time-barred-offense ucmj uniform-code-military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice Whether the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces erred in concluding—contrary to its own longstanding precedent—that the Uniform Code of Military Jus…
19-55 James W. Richards, IV v. Barbara M. Barrett, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Armed Forces 2019-07-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) all-writs-act article-i article-i-court caaf executive-branch extraordinary-writ jurisdiction military-courts military-jurisdiction uniform-code-military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice Can the Executive Branch divest an Article I military court of appeals of jurisdiction over an extraordinary writ brought under the All Writs Act, 28 …
18A1205 James W. Richards, IV v. Deborah Lee James, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Armed Forces 2019-05-21 Presumed Complete article-i-courts executive-branch extraordinary-writ jurisdiction military-courts uniform-code-of-military-justice Whether an Article I military court of appeals can be divested of jurisdiction over an extraordinary writ by executive action after jurisdiction has i…
18-1400 E. V. v. Eugene H. Robinson, Jr., Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps, in His Capacity as Military Judge Ninth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied article-6b due-process inferior-tribunals inferior-tribunals-clause judicial-review military-justice military-sexual-assault military-tribunals psychotherapist-privilege sovereign-immunity ucmj uniform-code-of-military-justice victims-rights Whether Congress intended to bar judicial review of a victim's rights under Article 6b
18-6868 In Re Peter T. Roukis 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP Article-12 bureau-of-prisons civil-rights custody discharged-prisoners due-process legal-custody military-prisoners uniform-code-of-military-justice Are discharged military prisoners confined within the Bureau Of Prisons subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)?