Case ID: cma_19/html/0571-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Quinn, Chief Judge: FERGUSON, Judge", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES, Appellee v MELVIN L. DeWEES, Private, U. S. Army, Appellant
    19 USCMA 571, 42 CMR 173
    No. 22,932
    July 17, 1970
    
      Colonel Daniel T. Ghent and Captain Bernard J. Casey were on the pleadings for Appellant, Accused.
    
      Colonel David T. Bryant, Major Edwin P. Wasinger, and Captain Benjamin G. Porter were on the pleadings for Appellee, United States.
   Opinion of the Court

Quinn, Chief Judge:

The question presented by this appeal is whether error was committed by the military judge when he examined the sentence provision of a pretrial agreement between the accused and the convening authority. We considered this question in United States v Villa, 19 USCMA 564, 42 CMR 166 (1970), and for the reasons set out in our opinion in that case, we conclude there was no error.

The decision of the United States Army Court of Military Review is affirmed.

Judge DARDEN concurs.

FERGUSON, Judge

(dissenting) :

I dissent.

I disagree with my brothers’ decision in this case for the reasons set forth in my separate opinion in United States v Villa, 19 USCMA 564, 42 CMR 166 (1970).