Next, look into the military justice process when it comes to Sexual Assault trial. During a Defense Department Advisory Committee meeting, several Trial Defense Service organization chiefs from different branches, talk about conviction and acquittal rates and the adjudication process. We are continuing with panel three. Regarding conviction acquittal rates, case adjudication process and victim declination. I suspect we might hear Something Different than we heard this morning. We just pull together questions. I will read the first one. It concerns the referral process. The responses indicate victim preference may play an outsized role into whether or not a Sexual Assault case is referred to trial. What consideration should the authority get to victims wishes, regarding the disposition of a Sexual Assault case. Colonel bennett, could you start us off . Would you be sure to hit the button please . The voice of the victim is something that should be considered. When we give too much weig
Texas professor Hector Garcia explores how evolutionary science can help us understand partisan politics. This is about 40 minutes. I think youre getting the wave from cspan. Okay. Welcome everybody. Very excited to introduce todays author, a wonderful book called sex, power, and partnership. Cant hear you. Isipis this better . Okay. Im very happy to introduce todays author, dr. Hector garcia. Dr. Garcia is a clinical psychologist, and he specializes in posttraumatic stress disorder. Hes also an assistant professor at the department of psychiatry at Ut Health Science center. Hiu know, i dont know if your parents told you when you were growing up that at the thanksgiving dinner table whatever you do, dont talk about sex, politics or partisanship. So, what has Doctor Garcia gone, hes written a book about sex, politics and partisanship. And so, with that introduction, please tell us how you have gone to these topics that we were told not to talk about. The first book was about religion. [
This portion, local community and Homelessness Prevention advocates talked about the causes of homelessness in their area, and what they need. The audio issues in the start will go away shortly. Our second Panel Includes mr. Tim watkins, president and chief executive officer, watt Community Action committee, and mr. Joe foyer, the local support corporation, becky dennison, executive director Dennis Community housing, anthony hayes, speak up, advocate corporation for support of housing, erica hartman, and chief Program Officer Downtown Womens Center, and chancellor of alman corps, and executive director of the housing center. Alma vizcaino, downtown speaker of the violence against women and services center, and also, the chief and executive Community Leader of friends, and without objection, your written statements will be part of the record. Each of you will have five minutes to summarize your testimony, and i will give you a signal by tapping the gavel lightly when one minute remains
Okay. Thank you for joining us this morning. Were going to be looking at the perspectives of the services military Justice Division chiefs regarding conviction and acquittal rates, case of adjudication process and victim declination. Thank you. [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] forecourt mash sal 405 as currently drafted provide an effective check against charges for which there is no probable cause. Ill start with you. So, i think for the past several years the procedural requirements have change and statutory change for the requirement for the victim to testify. And as a result, in many cases that the governments most significant evidence. In the those cases where a victim chooses to not to testify, the government is basically making its case based on the paper file. And so i will say that those changes over time have, have reduced the procedural requirements of article 32 but i still think its a valuable check. First off, there is an experienced judge advocate looking at the case and evid
Hudson. My name is richard weitz, and the director of the center for political director of the center for political and military analysis here at hudson. Today we are honored to talk about an important report and the port subject that is congressional efforts to oversee the u. S. Nuclear security efforts. We are specifically going to talk about a report, copies of which are outside, by the partnerships to secure america and Arms Control Association on empowering congress a nuclear authority, blueprints for a new generation. I want to take the welcome the cspan audience for joining us. To make everything easier, if people could silence any cell phones you might have now, that would be very helpful. The report and either work we have been doing with partnerships to secure america and Arms Control Association has been over a year, and independent project over collaborated with these organizations last you doing through events on hill, congressional briefings on the Nuclear Threat, the too