Case ID: cma_19/html/0570-01.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 JAMES O. RAZOR, Jr., Specialist Four, U. S. Army, Appellant
    19 USCMA 570, 42 CMR 172
    No. 22,891
    July 17, 1970
    
      Colonel Daniel T. Ghent, Captain Thomas R. Maher, and Captain Gary L. Hultqwist were on the pleadings for Appellant, Accused.
    
      
      Colonel David T. Bryant, Major Edwin P. Wasinger, Captain William R. Steinmetz, and Captain Glenn R. Bonard were on the pleadings for Appellee, United States.
   Opinion of the Court

Quinn, Chief Judge:

We granted review of the accused’s conviction, on his plea of guilty of several offenses in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, by a military judge sitting without court members. The Question presented is whether the accused was prejudiced by the judge’s examination of the sentence provision of a pretrial agreement between the accused and the convening authority. We considered the question in United States v Villa, 19 USCMA 564, 42 CMR 166 (1970). For the reasons stated in our opinion in that case, we affirm the decision of the United States Army Court of Military Review.

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).