Military court jurisdiction ruling [US SC]

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Military court jurisdiction ruling [US SC]

June 8, 2009 08:14:00 pm

US v. Denedo, US Supreme Court, June 8, 2009 [holding that the US Court of Appeals of the Armed Forces and the Navy-Marine Corp Court of Criminal Appeals have jurisdiction to entertain a petition for a writ of error coram nobis from an earlier NMCCA judgment]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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