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The Lion Who Squeaked: How the Moreno Decision Hasn't Changed the World and Other Post-Trial News
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The Army Lawyer
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June 1, 2008
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Introduction
The 2007 term for the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF) and the service courts was of great interest to post-trial practitioners. The first part of this article addresses the continuing development of post-trial delay jurisprudence in light of CAAF's 2006 United States v. Moreno1 decision. When CAAF expressed its frustration with the military's long history of dilatory post-trial processing by announcing that it would apply "a presumption of unreasonable delay . . . where the action of the convening authority is not taken within 120 days of the completion of trial,"2 many post-trial practitioners feared the worst. Knowing that most cases, particularly contested ...
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