JMO-0038 · The State v AppaLlywelyn
| Court | Imperial Prosecution Bureau · Judgment |
|---|---|
| Date | 2026-09-06 |
| Published | JMO-0038 |
| Keywords | Not stated in the record |
| Summary | The defendant was charged with failure to comply, with command misconduct pleaded in the alternative, and with contempt of court. He had been appointed as the trainer of the three other formation leaders and received explicit orders from the Sovereign and the convening officer that attendance was mandatory, and he swore an oath accepting the burden of formation leadership. On 5 September he did not attend the ceremony and session and message records show no presence, and separately he placed pleas and evidence into the case room after being directed to put them on the case file. The court found him guilty of failure to comply and of contempt, holding that responsibility follows the appointment and that the contempt finding stands independently. The alternative charge of command misconduct was dismissed. The court declined to reduce his rank, described the misconduct as a botched duty rather than desertion, ordered a penance at the hall of penance and a written oath of loyalty, and withheld the Grand Order of the Eternal Flame. |
| Procedural history | Not stated in the record |
| Parties | The State: The State Defendant: AppaLlywelyn |
| Author | Not stated in the record |
| Last updated | 2026-09-06 |
| References in the text | None cited |
The verdict
Guilty on 1.1.4 Failure to Comply and 1.2.2 Contempt of Court. 1.1.5 Command Misconduct is dismissed.
The sentence
A penance at the hall of penance, and a written oath of loyalty in his own hand.
The written judgement
The portrait burning parade of 5 September went ahead. What it did not do was go ahead well. It ran late, it ran slow, and on the ground it was disordered when it should have been sharp. That is the real matter before the Ministry. These were not idle soldiers in the line. They were the men given the parade to lead, and a parade that is chaotic and slow is, before it is anything else, a failure of the men who were meant to hold it together.
AppaLlywelyn stood at the head of that failure. He did not hold one of four appointments as an equal among the four. He was made the trainer of the other three, told in as many words that the others were to learn from him, and he answered that all four were prepared. When the day came and the parade did not come off cleanly and in good time, the man who had been set above the others carries more of that than the others do. Responsibility follows the appointment, and his was the highest of them.
The court records guilt on the failure to comply, and on the contempt, which was a separate thing: he was told plainly, in the first line of his own case room, that pleas and evidence go on the case file and not in the room, and he put them in the room anyway. That finding stands on its own and does not soften.
On what is owed, the Ministry does not reach for rank here. The Victory over Teutonnia parade of April this year is the nearest thing the court has to a precedent, and in those cases the prosecution asked for officers to be stripped of their posts and demoted, and no such verdict was ever returned, with attendance and effort weighed on the other side. The court keeps to that restraint. This was a botched duty on a day that mattered, not desertion, and the answer to a botched duty is to make the man account for it and put it right, not to break his career over it. He is set a penance at the hall of penance and will write an oath of loyalty in his own hand. He is not reduced in rank. The Grand Order of the Eternal Flame was to be earned by carrying the parade well, and it was not carried well, so it is not awarded.
An official decision of the Judicial Ministry of Octavium. The complete working file of this case, with its hearing record, is held at the Ministry.