RE: Trial Advocacy Training

["Sullivan, Dwight H CIV USAF AFLOA/JAJA" <Dwight.Sullivan@pentagon.af.mil>]

You are the man!

There will be a case file that is prepared specifically for this training.  (It'll involve in IED explosion and a detainee held as a suspect in the explosion.)  The OMC defense office is preparing the case file -- it should be done by the end of this week.  I'll forward it to you as soon as I get it.

Am I being way too optimistic in interpreting your e-mail as indicating that you're available for all six blocks?  :- )  If I am being too optimistic, please let me know which ones you're available for.

Semper Fi,
Dwight

-----Original Message-----
From: Neal Puckett [mailto:neal@puckettfaraj.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 9:29 AM
To: Sullivan, Dwight H CIV USAF AFLOA/JAJA
Cc: Atwood Marcy; Nicholson Kenneth; Faraj Haytham; Montalvo Eric
Subject: Re: Trial Advocacy Training

Dwight,
As always, you are too kind. I hasten to accept your offer before you reconsider. Please let me know if there will be any read-ahead info I'll need before the training begins. 
S/f,
Neal

Neal A. Puckett
LtCol, USMC (Ret)
Puckett & Faraj, PC

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On Sep 13, 2010, at 5:43 AM, "Sullivan, Dwight H CIV USAF AFLOA/JAJA"<Dwight.Sullivan@pentagon.af.mil> wrote:



	Neal,

	 

	I hope all is well!  From Tuesday, 26 October through Thursday, 28 October, the Marine Reserve defense branch will be putting on NITA-style trial advocacy training for the Office of Military Commissionsâ defense office.  Our little branch doesnât have enough members to cover all the in-court judging and video-critiquing tasks.  As I was thinking about who I might beg to help, it occurred to me that you would be the perfect person to judge/critique military commission litigation TRIAD training.  For our in-court judges, we want to use exclusively former military judges to give the participants â all of whom have at least some court-martial litigation experience â a sense of verisimilitude.  As I thought about former military judges who are also great trial litigators, the name of a certain former military judge who recently cleaned the courtroom floor using my friend Jason Grover as a mop leaped immediately to mind.  :- )

	 

	I know itâs a long shot that youâll be in town and not in court during that training, but what harm could come from asking?

	 

	Is there any chance that you might be available and willing to be an in-court judge/critiquer for one or more of the blocks?.  Here are the eight blocks during which we have exercises scheduled:

	 

	 

	Tuesday, 26 October

	 

	0800-1200

	 

	1300-1650

	 

	 

	Wednesday, 27 October

	 

	0800-1045

	 

	1300-1635

	 

	 

	Thursday, 28 October

	 

	0800-1000

	 

	1230-1545

	 

	Of course, if you are unavailable or if itâs too much on an imposition, Iâll understand completely!

	 

	Semper Fi,

	Dwight