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Post by Captain Erys Murai on Jun 26, 2014 9:39:19 GMT -5
In a recent post, I noticed this:
In modern times, a person can be held on suspicion for up to 48 hours (I think) without charges. (That provision is often used to handle drunks on the street or to let someone who's angry and potentially violent calm down even if they haven't actually done anything wrong). I suppose that's more of a "safety precaution" than a "punishment", but just for my own clarification I wanted to make sure that's still the case for us.
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Post by Vice Admiral Nyoko Honda on Jun 26, 2014 10:30:01 GMT -5
Being held in the brig for protective custody and being sent to the brig as punishment is two very diffrent things.
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Post by Vice Admiral Nyoko Honda on Jun 26, 2014 10:33:33 GMT -5
But regardless. You need to file paper work. Ether way so command can be aware. We don't care if people are confined to quarters. That's a captains way of sending you to your room with out getting you into trouble with the JAG
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Post by DGM Cygnus on Jun 26, 2014 11:34:27 GMT -5
-demonic chime in-
At the time it happened we did not have an active player run upper command administration to file paper work to.
So maybe in this case it is a method we keep in consideration to move forward with, not so much try to enforce and admonish players after the fact...
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Post by Lt Cmdr Billie Jo Spencer MD on Jun 26, 2014 12:03:58 GMT -5
I agree with Cyg that any discussion of this should be for the purposes of moving forward.
I do want to point out that unless the charges are serious enough to warrant an actual court martial, a report about it is not likely to wind up on an admirals desk. Since only certain commanders and officials are authorized to convene a court martial, your typical CO would have to typically take such a matter to a higher authority.
For minor offenses that fall under article 15, "non-judicial punishment" or "mast" depending on your branch of service, would be handled by the offenders commanding officer. The commanding officer can confine people to the brig if they decide that is necessary, but typically for very limited periods of time. Also typically officers are confined to quarters as opposed to the brig, which is where Erys went first as I understand, but she didn't want to stay there. A report from a non-judicial punishment would not likely reach as high as a fleet admiral, except under rare circumstances.
I think the potential charges against Erys, had her actions not been shown to be justified, would likely have risen to the level of court martial. But, I'm not a lawyer.
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Post by Captain Erys Murai on Jun 26, 2014 13:26:22 GMT -5
That's why I asked, because my character would know this already, and I want to play her accurately.
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