Legal Question in Military Law in Illinois
Can someone get a dishonorable discharge during the first 180 days
A friend of mine got beat up badly by
someone who was going to go to the
army the next day. She didn't press
charges, she was afraid. Can she let
him suffer through bootcamp for a
month, press charges and get him a
dishonorable discharge? I just don't
want this guy to get off the hook
since pressing charges domestically in
this country is a joke.
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Can someone get a dishonorable discharge during the first 180 days
You certainly can file a police report and a complaint against this person. This is not a military matter, however. So, the Army would not exercise jurisdiction. Typically, these accession problems are handled by the gov't by an administrative discharge procedure, as it costs too much to try someone if there was a prosecutable crime. By the way, I don't know one jurisdiction that doesn't consider domestic violence a serious matter.
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