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Description. The Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals (NMCCA) is located in Washington, D.C. in the Navy Yard. The court conducts mandatory review (unless waived by the appellant) of all courts-martial of members of the naval service referred to the court pursuant to Articles 62, 66, 69, and 73 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
There are four such courts—the Army Court of Criminal Appeals, the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals, the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals, and the Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals. The Courts of Criminal Appeals review the cases for legal error, factual sufficiency, and sentence appropriateness.
There are four such courts – the Army Court of Criminal Appeals, the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals, the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals, and the Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals. After review by any of these intermediate courts, the next level of appeal is the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF).
Despite early challenges, NMCI will be the foundation on which the Navy and Marine Corps can build to support their broader strategic information management objectives. The U.S. Naval Institute reports that "Complaints about NMCI speed and reliability are near-constant" and a wired.com piece quotes an NMCI employee as saying:
From 1998 to 2000, served as an Appellate Judge on the Navy and Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals in Washington, D.C. From 2000 to 2004, served as the Circuit Military Judge for the Tidewater Judicial Circuit in Norfolk, Virginia. From 2004 to 2006, served as the Chief Judge of the Navy and Marine Corps Trial Judiciary in Washington, D.C.
Modzelewski joined the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals in 2011 and became its Chief Judge on 6 August 2013. She was appointed Chief Judge of the Navy after the retirement of Christian L. Reismeier on 1 July 2015. Retiring from active duty in on 12 July 2018, she was succeeded as Chief Judge of the Navy by Charles N. Purnell II.
Army Court of Criminal Appeals; Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals; Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals; Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals; The service courts of criminal appeals have the power to reverse convictions that are either legally or factually insufficient, and to reduce sentences that they deem to be inappropriately severe.
1960 (age 63–64) New York City, New York, U.S. Education. University of Pennsylvania ( BS) New York University ( JD) Boston University ( MS) Albert Diaz (born 1960) is the chief United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Diaz is the first Hispanic judge to serve on the Fourth Circuit.