Case Name: JAMES R. GOSA, former Airman Third Class, U. S. Air Force, Petitioner v. UNITED STATES, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Military Appeals
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1970-03-20
Citations: 19 C.M.A. 327
Docket Number: Miscellaneous Docket No. 69-64
Parties: JAMES R. GOSA, former Airman Third Class, U. S. Air Force, Petitioner v UNITED STATES, Respondent
Judges: Chief Judge Quinn concurs.
Reporter: Decisions of the United States Court of Military Appeals
Volume: 19
Pages: 327–328

Head Matter:
JAMES R. GOSA, former Airman Third Class, U. S. Air Force, Petitioner v UNITED STATES, Respondent
19 USCMA 327, 41 CMR 327
Miscellaneous Docket No. 69-64
March 20, 1970
Colonel Bertram Jacobson and Major Frank T. Moniz were on the pleadings for Petitioner.
Colonel James M. Bumgarner’ and Major Robert L. Bates were on the pleadings for Respondent.

Opinion:
Opinion of the Court
Darden, Judge:
In December 1966 a general court-martial at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, convicted the petitioner of raping a civilian off military property in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and sentenced him to a bad-conduct discharge, total forfeitures, confinement at hard labor for ten years, and reduction to the lowest pay grade. This Court denied his petition for grant of review in August 1967. He now is serving his sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee, Florida.
The petitioner filed with this Court a motion to vacate sentence as a result of a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in O'Callahan v Parker, 395 US 258, 23 L Ed 2d 291, 89 S Ct 1683 (1969), and the decision of this Court in United States v Borys, 18 USCMA 547, 40 CMR 259 (1969), applying the O'Callahan principle to a case that was still subject to direct review before the date of the O'Callahan opinion. He also petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida. That petition was denied in Gosa v Mayden, 305 F Supp 1186 (1969), an opinion referred to in the decision of this Court in Mercer v Dillon, 19 USCMA 264, 41 CMR 264 (1970), in which we held that the O'Callahan principle does not apply to cases that had become final under Article 76 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 USC § 876, before the date of the O'Callahan opinion.
For the reasons outlined in Mercer the petition is denied.
Chief Judge Quinn concurs.
ACM 19784.