Just the Facts Ma’am: How Military Appellate Courts Rely on Factual Sufficiency Review to Overturn Sexual Assault Cases When Victims are 'Incapacitated'
Lisa M. Schenck, "Just the Facts Ma’am": How Military Appellate Courts Rely on Factual Sufficiency Review to Overturn Sexual Assault Cases When Victims Are "Incapacitated," 45 Southwestern Law Review 522 (2016)
39 Pages Posted: 6 Aug 2016
Date Written: August 5, 2016
Abstract
This article contends that since sufficient protections are now in place in the military justice system, the military courts of criminal appeals no longer require factual sufficiency review authority to protect an accused tried by courts-martial, and furthermore, military criminal courts of appeals should have the same standard of review as other federal criminal courts, that is, a conviction should be tested for legal sufficiency.
Keywords: military sexual assault, military sexual trauma, military justice
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