Each branch of the military takes a very aggressive approach towards the investigation and prosecution of sex offenses. Victim’s Rights Advocates have successfully entrenched in the military the philosophy that military personnel charged with sex offenders must be aggressively prosecuted and severely punished if convicted for a sex offense. While the basic fundamental principle of our judicial system in the military, and in our society at large, is that a person accused of a criminal offense is “innocent until proven guilty,” in many sex offense cases there regrettably seems to be an immediate presumption that the accused person is guilty. Frequently, the investigation of a complaint concerning a sex offense starts with the military investigators assuming that the “victim” is telling the truth – instead of conducting a fair and unbiased investigation, the investigators frequently overlook evidence that would show that the accused may not be guilty, focusing instead in the one-sided effort to prove the “guilt” of the accused, even if in fact he did not commit the offense in question.

Service members who are charged with sex offenses are in any cases branded as a societal outcast by the military and public communities. Frequently, sex offense cases in the military draw intense media attention, with the service member being identified in the media regardless as to the merits of the allegations against him. Defending a sex offense in the military requires the assistance of a skilled defense attorney, having extensive litigation experience in the defense of sex offense cases. Since leaving active duty with the Army JAG Corps in 1982, Attorney Greg D. McCormack has successfully defended hundreds of military personnel who were charged with a variety of sex offenses.