Case ID: cma_23/html/0530-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES, Appellee v LUIS A. MUNIZ, Private, U. S. Army, Appellant
    No. 29,950
    August 22, 1975
    
      Colonel Victor A. DeFiori, Lieutenant Colonel James Kucera, and Captain Donald R. Jensen were on the pleadings for Appellant, Accused.
    
      Lieutenant Colonel Ronald M. Holdaway, Lieutenant Colonel Donald W. Hansen, and Captain Raymond Michael Ripple were on the pleadings for Appellee, United States.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

Per Curiam:

An appellate exhibit offered by the Government before this Court establishes that a recruiting sergeant, conspiring with others, provided false documentation to the appellant in order to effect his enlistment. A post-trial affidavit from the appellant further indicates that the recruiter provided him with the answers to the entrance examination in exchange for a bribe of $200. For the reasons set forth in United States v Russo, 23 USCMA —, 50 CMR — (August 1,1975), the court-martial which tried appellant lacked jurisdiction.

The decision of the United States Army Court of Military Review is reversed. The findings of guilty and the sentence are set aside, and the charge is ordered dismissed. 
      
       Appellate Government counsel’s candor in revealing a document which adversely affected the Government’s position in this litigation is commendable and serves well as a model for the degree of professionalism which a. criminal justice system must strive to attain. See ABA Code of Professional Responsibility, DR 7-102.