And the reasons why some victims choose to not move forward through the military justice process. This is about three hours. 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 adjudication process, and victim declination. [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] does the article 32 statute and its implementing rule, rule for courtmartial 405, provide an effective check for charges against 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 proce
Stand out. Where were you when . I had an awful lot of great brakes related to apollo 11. It was the day i got the assignment to do the landing phase. One of the responsibilities of the lead flight director is to identify which flight director is going to cover which phase of the mission. Im moving in their, we would have been flight directors on gemini and are actually coming back together again. You had probably the three most experienced people at the consult and it was a question of who was going to get to do what. Had been to the moon a couple of times. I had the lunar module experience. So you had no particular driver that says this person ought to be doing this phase of the mission. The division chief at the time had been really on top of us to nail down who is going to do what, until finally after the apollo 9 mission we all managed to get together and charles had to make the calls. I called him and said cliff, weve got to make a decision on which flight directors going to cove
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