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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES, Appellee v JOHNNIE A. KINNEY, Sergeant, U. S. Marine Corps, Appellant
    14 USCMA 465, 34 CMR 245
    No. 17,388
    March 27, 1964
    
      Lieutenant (jg) Patrick W. Lee, USNR, was on the brief for Appellant, Accused.
    
      Lieutenant Colonel Rem/mél H. Dudley, USMC, was on the brief for Appellee, United States.
   Opinion of the Court

PER Curiam:

This is a companion case to United States v Stoltz, 14 USCMA 461, 34 CMR 241, and involves testimony by the same witness who appeared in that trial, under the identical conditional grant of immunity. For the reasons set forth in our opinion in Stoltz, supra, the findings of guilty of robbery must be set aside. However, the accused entered a provident plea of guilty to unrelated charges of absence without leave, and the findings as to that offense are not affected by the error. Accordingly, they need not be set aside.

The decision of the board of review is reversed, and the record of trial is returned to The Judge Advocate General of the Navy. The board may order a rehearing on the robbery charge and the sentence, or reassess the penalty on the basis of the findings of guilty of unauthorized absence.