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
Good morning. I would like to welcome the members and everyone who is in attendance today to the 13th Public Meeting of the Defense Advisory Committee on investigation and prosecution defense of Sexual Assault in the armed forces. The dacipad. Of the faking Committee Members, 11 members ares, present this morning and a 12 member will be joining us by telephone at 10 00 this morning. Two members were not able to attend today, Major General Marsha Anderson and judge reggie walton. The dacipad was greeted by the secretary of defense in 2016 in accordance with the National Defense authorization act for fiscal year 2015 as amended. Our mandate is to advise secretary of defense on the investigation, prosecution and defense of allegations for Sexual Assault and other Sexual Misconduct involving members of the armed forces. Please note todays meeting is being b transcribed, a complete written transcript will be posted on the dacipad website. But todays meeting will begin with the dacipad Data
It was created in 2015 in accordance with the act in 2015 as amended. Our mandate is to advise the secretary of defense on investigation, prosecution of allegations of Sexual Assault and other Sexual Misconduct involving members of the armed forces. Please note that todays meeting is being transcribed. A complete written transcribe will be posted on the website. Todays meeting will begin with the dac ipads fiscal 2018 for acquittal rates of Sexual Assault in the military based on case documents from all military Sexual Assault cases closed during the fiscal year. Next, staff director will provide an overview of the Draft Department of defense report on allegations of misconstruct. This draft report was submitted to the dac ipad in fulfillment of the Defense Authorization act for fiscal year 2019. Following the overview of the report, Service Representatives involved in the report, drafting and Data Collection will appear before the committee to answer questions about the data, and the
Thank you, good morning. I would like to welcome the members and everyone in attendance today to the 13th Public Meeting of the Defense Advisory Committee on investigation, prosecution, defense of Sexual Assault in the armed forces. Of the 15 Committee Members, 11 members are present and a 12th member will be joining us by telephone at 10 00 this morning. Two members were not able to attend today. Major general Marsha Anderson and judge reggie walton. It was created in 2015 in accordance with the National Defense authorization act in 2015 as amended. Our mandate is to advise the secretary of defense on the investigation, prosecution, and defense of allegations of Sexual Assault and other Sexual Misconduct involving members of the armed forces. Please note that todays meeting is being transcribed. The complete written transcript will be posted on the website. Todays meeting will begin with the dac ipads fiscal 2018 for conviction and acquittal rates of Sexual Assault in the military bas
Forces and this Committee Meeting is open. If a member of the audience would like to ask a question, please direct that to tammy on my right. All comments will be at theened of the meeting and at the discretion of the chair. It would be inappropriate for any member of the public gathering to offer oral comments at any other time. The written Public Comments can always be submitted. Good afternoon mr. Sullivan and all. Id like to welcome the members, participants and everyone in attendance today to the Fourth Meeting of the Defense Advisory Committee on investigation, prosecution, and defense of Sexual Assault in the armed forces. The secretary of defense appointed 16 members to the committee all of whom are participating here today. It was created by the secretary of defense in accordance with the National Defense authorization act for fiscal year 2015 as amend. Our mandate is to advise the secretary of defense on investigation, prosecution and defense of allegations of Sexual Assault