Military Attorney, Law Offices of James D. Culp – Military Court Martial Lawyers

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	James Culp provides aggressive, experienced representation to U.S. service members and veterans, around the globe, in all aspects of military law to include courts-martial and courts-martial appeals. With a decade of military law experience, Mr. Culp is the only civilian defense counsel in the United States who is himself a combat veteran, a former active duty officer, and a former active duty enlisted non-commissioned officer. A graduate of UCLA and the University of California, Berkeley Law School, Mr. Culp has successfully represented U.S. service members in every type of criminal case imaginable. From his office in Austin, Texas, Mr. Culp provides worldwide representation in all military criminal and administrative matters. Mr. Culp has tried military courts-martial cases in Korea, Japan, Guam, Germany, England, Iraq and throughout the United States. While working as a civilian defense counsel, military defense counsel, and as a senior military defense counsel at both the trial court and military appellate court levels, Mr. Culp witnessed first-hand that U.S. military service members deserve more than mere competence: They deserve excellence through aggressive, experienced representation. What distinguishes Mr. Culp from other lawyers who proclaim a career devoted to the representation of U.S. service members is that Mr. Culp has never prosecuted a member of the U.S. military. While the experience of other military lawyers almost always includes the prosecution of our service members, Mr. Culp repeatedly refused to become a military prosecutor. Rather than prosecute a U.S. service member, Mr. Culp set a record as the first U.S. Army Judge Advocate to serve six consecutive years as an active duty defense counsel and senior defense counsel. Mr. Culp knows the Uniform Code of Military Justice and he understands the system. He founded his firm on the sole principle that service members and veterans of the U.S. military deserve more than mere competence. Mr. Culp has successfully represented military personnel who have faced the very charges that are alleged against you. Don’t trust the system to protect your rights. The system gives you counsel: YOU NEED AGGRESSIVE, EXPERIENCED REPRESENTATION Mr. Culp takes a personal approach to litigating legal matters. Your case will never be passed down to a junior associate or clerk. His promise to you, if he accepts your case or the case of your son or daughter, is that your case will always be exclusively litigated by him throughout all phases of your representation. NO CASE IS TOO BIG OR TOO SMALL Mr. Culp understands that the case you are facing represents the most significant event that has ever happened to you. He understands that every military case, criminal or administrative, is extremely important when the government is attempting to deprive you or your loved one of their freedom, their livelihood, or their honorable service record.

HADITHA
LCpl Justin Sharratt was one of four Marines charged with murder on December 21, 2006 in connection with the killing of 24 Iraqi men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq. It was the U.S. military's deadliest criminal case to emerge from the Iraq war. LCpl Sharratt faced a life sentence if convicted.

ISKANDARIYAH
On July 1, 2007 Army Sergeant Evan Vela, a Ranger qualified sniper with the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, was charged with the premeditated murder of an Iraqi who had compromised his team’s hide position in the Triangle of Death. Sergeant Vela faced a life sentence if convicted.

RAMADI
On June 25, 2006 the Army charged Specialist Nathan Lynn of the 1st Battalion, 109th Infantry Regiment with the wrongful killing of an Iraqi who was shot to death while moving tactically on SPC Lynn’s position. SPC Lynn was also charged with conspiracy for his alleged role in planting an AK-47 at the scene.

CHARLES JENKINS
In the early morning hours of January 5, 1965, Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins deserted his U.S. Army unit in South Korea and walked across the DMZ to North Korea where he remained until 2004. When he escaped North Korea in the summer of 2004, he was charged with desertion and aiding the enemy and faced a possible life sentence.

MAHMUDIYAH
The Al-Mahmudiyah killings occurred on March 12, 2006 in a house located south of Baghdad, Iraq in which four United States soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division raped and murdered a 14 year-old Iraqi girl after murdering her mother, father and 5 year old sister. All four Soldiers faced the possibility of the death sentence.

JALALABAD
On March 4, 2007, a convoy of Special Operations Marines was attacked outside of Jalalabad, Afghanistan. They responded in self defense. After the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission issued a report stating that 12 civilians were killed and 35 wounded, the NCIS initiated an investigation

BAGHDAD
In the Spring of 2007, an infantry First Sergeant, a Platoon Sergeant, and the company medic executed four Iraqi detainees in South Baghdad. SSG Jesse Cunningham revealed the murders and erroneously became one of seven Army soldiers charged with the killings. He faced a mandatory minimum sentence of life in prison.

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