Case ID: cma_13/html/0029-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES, Appellee v LUIS YORDAN-ORTIZ, Private, U. S. Army, Appellant
    13 USCMA 29, 32 CMR 29
    
      No. 15,636
    April 6, 1962
    
      Colonel W. H. Blackmarr, Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Herrod, Captain Jerome D. Meeker and First Lieutenant Robert L. Brosio were on the brief for Appellant, Accused.
    
      Major Francis M. Cooper, Captain Stanley M. Wanger, and Captain William A. Zeigler were on the brief for Appellee, United States.
   Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam:

We granted accused’s petition for review, inter alia, on a contention that the trial proceedings, held at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, were tainted by command control. See United States v Kitchens, 12 USCMA 589, 31 CMR 175; United States v Smith, 12 USCMA 594, 31 CMR 180; United States v Barrett, 12 USCMA 598, 31 CMR 184. After appellant’s brief was filed, the United States requested that the findings and sentence be set aside. Under all the circumstances, we conclude such action is appropriate.

The decision of the board of review is reversed, and the record of trial is returned to The Judge Advocate General of the Army. A rehearing may be ordered.