By Joe Gould – Staff writer
If the civilian justice system has embraced treatment courts that care for veterans stricken with combat stress and brain injuries instead of punishing them, why can’t the military justice system? It can and it should, asserted Maj. Evan Seamone, the chief of military justice at Fort Benning, Ga., in an article published in the most recent issue of the journal Military Law Review. “While one would expect courts-martial to foster the problem-solving approach based on the active-duty origin of these mental conditions, the initial legal approach resides exclusively in the domain of civilian Veterans […]