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For Appellant: Captain Steven P. Haight (argued); Colonel Adele H. Odegard,
Major Jonathon F. Potter, and Captain David S. Hurt (on brief);
Lieutenant Colonel David A. Mayfield and Major Scott R. Morris.
Military Judge:
Robert F. Holland
He was sentenced to a
The
Appellant has
See Art.
recommendation.
Approximately 6 months after denial of the deferment
request, the SJA provided the convening authority with a
recommendation to approve the findings and sentence under
Article 60(d), UCMJ, 10 USC 860(d).
The SJAs
letter from appellant's wife in which she wrote that she, not
appellant, had hurt the children, describing what she had done
and how she had done it.
See S.
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-106, 110
Stat. 462-63, Congress amended the Code to provide that: (1)
forfeitures adjudged by a court-martial would become effective
in most cases prior to the convening authority's action, and (2)
the convening authority could defer such forfeitures.
57(a), supra.
Art.
see also
III.
DISCUSSION
Id. at 775-76.
The issue
B.
Evaluation of Prejudice
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IV.
DECISION
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