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To: Beckwith
Wrong again. It could very well make it to the Supreme Court, under appeal.

Well anything is possible. It would have to clear several levels of military courts and reviews before going to the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. The problem with that is that unlike with the other appeals courts, review by CAAF is purely discretionary. And if that court decides not to hear the case then by law it's dead; denials by the CAAF are not subject to review by the Supreme Court. So the case would have to go to the General Court martial and lose there. The results would be reviewed by the convening authority and upheld. The case can then be appealed to the Army Court of Criminal Appeal where it would have to lose again. From there they can appeal the the CAAF which would have to accept the case. Only if they lost the appeal there could they go to the Supreme Court, and then the court would have to take it. Want to figure the odds?

178 posted on 02/24/2009 9:24:09 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

Yad, tada, yada.

Why don’t you just go away?


180 posted on 02/24/2009 9:26:25 AM PST by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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