Case ID: cma_19/html/0481-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES, Appellee v WILLIAM A. YOUNG, Fireman Recruit, U. S. Navy, Appellant
    19 USCMA 481, 42 CMR 83
    No. 22,677
    June 5, 1970
    
      Captain Frank A. Nelson, JAGC, USN, was on the pleadings for Appellant, Accused.
    
      Lieutenant Colonel Charles J. Keever, USMC, and Captain John J. Reilly, USMCR, were on the pleadings for Appellee, United States.
   Opinion of the Court

Darden, Judge:

The appellant pleaded guilty to an unauthorized absence that began May 17, 1969. A record of Article 15 nonjudicial punishment for a two and one-half hour unauthorized absence was used against Young for sentencing purposes. This evidence was inadmissible on an offense that occurred before August 1, 1969. United States v Johnson, 19 USCMA 464, 42 CMR 66 (1970). Since similar prosecution exhibits show special court-martial convictions for other such absences, the chance of harm is remote. The decision of the Court of Military Review is therefore affirmed.

Chief Judge Quinn concurs.

Ferguson, Judge

(dissenting):

I dissent for the reasons set forth in my separate opinion in United States v Johnson, 19 USCMA 464, 42 CMR 66 (1970).