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

UNITED STATES, Appellee v BENNIE STEVESON, Airman Second Class, U. S. Air Force, Appellant
    9 USCMA 332, 26 CMR 112
    No. 11,071
    Decided June 6, 1958
    
      Lieutenant Colonel Ellis L. Gottlieb and Major Donald C. Helling were on the brief for Appellant, Accused.
    
      Lieutenant Colonel Robert W. Michels and Major Carl Goldschlager were on the brief for Appellee, United States.
   Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM:

The accused contends that he was denied due process of law because he was represented by a nonlawyer at the pretrial investigation held pursuant to Article 32, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 USC § 832. At the trial, however, he was represented by qualified counsel. The accused interposed no objection to the pretrial investigation and made no request for a continuance for further preparation. It is not alleged, and it nowhere appears, that the accused was prejudiced in any way by the lack of qualification of appointed counsel at the pretrial investigation. The error, therefore, is not prejudicial. United States v Mickel, 9 USCMA 324, 26 CMR 104.

Accordingly, the decision of the board of review is affirmed.