Law Office of Donald G. Rehkopf, Jr.

02/06/2023

My practice involves complex military appellate and post-conviction cases. As of late, I am seeing far too many cases where the detailed (assigned) military defense counsel are simply too inexperienced to be handling what in essence are, major felonies. With s*x crimes, it is worse because of the myriad of issues involved in S*x Offender registration laws, which can involve multiple jurisdictions.

The other side of the coin is equally as abhorrent -- civilian lawyers pretending to be military law experts when they have little or in many cases, no military law experience. They may be a good State DWI/OWI attorney, but that does not mean that they have a clue about an Article 120, UCMJ, s*xual assault case.

Don't be one of those people who hire an attorney because they've got 5 or 6 billboards around the gates of your base, post, garrison or whatever.

03/29/2022

https://sites.duke.edu/lawfire/2022/03/28/guest-post-don-rehkopf-on-courts-martial-verdicts-some-thoughts-on-unanimity/

Today’s post is a return visit by Lawfire®contributor Don Rehkopf. As you may recall from his previous post, Don has practiced military law for more than 45 years as an active duty officer, …

03/19/2022

"It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal."

~~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 - 43 BC; Roman lawyer and statesman)

01/19/2022

REMINDER: In most U.S. jurisdictions - to include the military, it is legal for the police to lie to you. It is also how they get people to falsely confess to things that they did not do!

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/01/18/anatomy-of-a-murder-confession?fbclid=IwAR3op57GYjCZG3d--P0QXQ2UeYUv9ImxOg1tgEMvH3wgvKzEtjWk3tTuDh4

Texas Ranger James Holland became famous for cajoling killers into confessing to their crimes. But did some of his methods — from lying to suspects to having witnesses hypnotized — ensnare innocent...

09/21/2021