Falsely Accused in the military?

1) This is an interview with a senior active duty chaplain who connects the spike in suicide rates in all services to false allegations of SA and DV. The interviewer has a talk show called Tell it Like it Is. He is a retired Marine Sergeant Major and NCIS special agent. He has done a series with more than a million views. Most of the views come from his website, YouTube only shows the views from people who watched in YouTube.

2) This is an interview with a former military JAG and the vice or assistant director of a justice program at UPENN. She (justice program person) formerly led the innocence project for Pennsylvania and a conviction integrity unit for Philadelphia. She reviewed several cases for advocates and was appalled. A Defense Advisory Committee for the Investigations Prosecution and Defense (DAC-IPAD) of sex assualt cases contacted her to help set up a military conviction integrity unit. The DAC IPAD was disbanded by the current SECDEF.

3) This interview is with a retired Navy Chief (YNC) who served as a paralegal at Navy Region San Diego and saw 500 cases of wrongful convictions (all sex assault) in one year at this one navy region. She reported it to senior leaders and she was removed from the billet. She was the number 1 ranked E6 at the time. She also saw three females on a Navy ship conspire to falsely accuse a Sailor to get a new assignment. They were successful despite the YNC contacting her command equal opportunity representative, her leadership, the command military lawyers, and the Navy’s Inspector General.

4) Donna Santucci is a former Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner and her son was falsely accused and wrongly convicted. This is is her testimony in front of the DAC IPAD. There is also a documentary on her son’s accusations.

5) In the most shocking and damning case I’ve read where there is a smoking gun of Command Undue Influence, a retired Navy SEAL Senior Chief shares his story of going to the brig despite zero evidence of a crime. Later, Senior Chief Keith Barry is exonorated but only after a retired Admiral with a guilty conscious gives a sworn statement. You can read the affidavit where Admiral Lorge says he felt pressured by Congress to convict an innocent man. Those involved in wrongfully convicting Barry faced no consequences and one went on to serve as a university president.

6) In her powerful law review note, Justice Is No Longer Blind, Heidi L. Brady argues that while the military's aggressive response to sexual assault is well-intentioned, it has dangerously tipped the scales of justice against the accused. Fueled by public pressure, political directives, and institutional reforms, the military justice system has become overwhelmingly victim-centric—prioritizing swift punishment over procedural fairness. Brady meticulously outlines how systemic flaws such as unlawful command influence, lack of defense resources, and biased court-martial practices erode the due process rights of the accused. Drawing on rarely cited congressional reports and insider military insight, she calls for structural changes—like independent prosecutors, empowered judges, and better-resourced defense teams—to restore balance. Her message is clear: eradicating sexual assault is essential, but not at the cost of sacrificing constitutional rights in the pursuit of justice.

7) A former U.S. Army JAG Special Victim Prosecutor argues that military justice reforms enacted during the #MeToo era—such as eliminating the “Good Soldier” defense, expanding definitions of sexual assault, restricting defense access to victims’ mental health records, and empowering Special Victim Counsel—have skewed the system too heavily in favor of accusers, often at the expense of constitutional due process. These collective changes lead to court-martial referrals even in cases lacking probable cause, undermining fairness and risking wrongful convictions. Citing the reversal of United States v. Vargas as evidence, the author calls for restoring balance through reforms like Defense Department Conviction Integrity & Accountability Units to ensure both survivors’ rights and defendants’ fairness.

8) Save Our Heroes Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit advocating for service members who have suffered wrongful military justice outcomes, submitted this letter on March 7, 2023 . The letter was authored by Michael Conzachi, SOH’s Director of Investigations and a retired Army infantry veteran with decades of law enforcement experience. SOH raised concerns that, amid efforts to address sexual misconduct in the military, wrongful convictions and false allegations—particularly in domestic violence and sexual misconduct cases—have increased, driven by prosecutorial overcharging, command influence, and career retaliation against commanders who do not refer allegations to court‑martial . The letter advocated for reforms including: requiring Senate Armed Services Committee members to publicly identify and justify any votes against officer promotions, creating a Conviction Integrity & Accountability Unit to review wrongful cases, and ensuring due‑process protections are upheld alongside efforts to reduce misconduct in the military justice system.

9) This link contains is a list and summary of ten dismissed sexual conduct cases in the U.S. military justice system since 2010, focusing on cases that were dropped, dismissed, or overturned on appeal, as reported or recorded in available sources. The list includes cases where unlawful command influence (UCI) was either proven or argued.