These cases can include rape, sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, abusive sexual contact, sexual assault of a minor, indecent viewing, indecent recording, forcible pandering, indecent exposure, and other Article 120 and Article 120(c) offenses. We are currently in a season of military history where we are trying to expunge sexual assault from the ranks. While we enthusiastically support that effort, we believe that victims are not served justice when innocent men and women are prosecuted.
The current climate is such that an allegation is being treated as proof of guilt and that is unacceptable. If you are innocent of these charges or you feel the entire story is not being told, then you need to fight for your career, retirement, and freedom. Please do not let a military prosecutor tell you that your career is over until you have had a chance to reach out for help. You can win this fight.
We defend cases such as conspiracy to defraud the military, BAH fraud, OHA fraud, extortion, larceny, wrongful appropriation, and more. We have a feeling if Kapaun were your priest and he caught you attempting BAH fraud, he’d say you are forgiven. The military justice system, not so much.
BAH fraud is one of the more common charges we see and if you let them, the military will hang you out to dry just to set an example. Oftentimes these charges come from a young service member trying to provide for their family or just an honest mistake. There is no reason for you to be the “example.” It’s your career and your life, so fight for it.
We represent service members facing charges including murder, manslaughter, aggravated assault, assault, and cases involving self-defense and defense of another. It’s our best guess that Kapaun was much of a rebel rouser, but we also have a strong suspicion that you wouldn’t want to get on his bad side when it comes to hurting those he cared for.
Many military fights start out as self-defense and morph into something altogether different as it escalates. A chair, beer bottle, or pool cue gets involved and you are facing serious charges when you were just sticking up for others. Soldiers fight in the military and it shouldn’t be the end of a career.
We defend cases involving drug possession, drug distribution, drug importation, drug manufacturing, drug trafficking, positive urinalysis cases, tampering with urinalysis cases, and more. These cases often involve illegal controlled substances such as marijuana, LSD, methamphetamines, cocaine, ecstasy, molly, opioids, analogues, and more.
To date, South Carolina has not legalized marijuana. However, at some point the military is going to have to come to terms with the fact that marijuana is legal in over 28 states. It simply can’t be the career killer that it has been in the past. Moreover, we believe that Soldiers are always more than the sum of the charges facing them. You can fight drug charges and you can win.
These include charges such as fraternization, unauthorized absence (AWOL), disobeying a lawful order, conduct unbecoming an officer, and much more. These articles serve a legitimate purpose, but how they are enforced from command to command is mind blowing.
One command will give you a slap on the rist and meanwhile, other commands will drag you out to the career “death house” for the exact same charge. Sometimes, just sometimes, you have to fight these charges out of principle. They might seem small, but that mark on your record can come back to haunt your career later.