Court Opinion

ID: 8575040
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-23 15:14:28.853324+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:54:00.963588
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Ferguson, Judge
(dissenting) :
I dissent.
I disagree with my brothers’ holding in this case that the plea of guilty was *127properly accepted by the military judge for the reasons set forth in my separate opinion in United States v Palos, 20 USCMA 104, 42 CMR 296 (1970). The military judge’s failure to make a specific finding on the record that the accused knowingly, intelligently, and consciously waived his right against self-incrimination, his right to trial of the facts by a court-martial, and his right to be confronted by the witnesses against him, is, in my opinion, reversible error. Cf. United States v Donohew, 18 USCMA 149, 39 CMR 149 (1969); United States v Fortier, 19 USCMA 149, 41 CMR 149 (1969). Without this specific finding on the record, the record is not verbatim as required by law. See my separate opinion in Palos, supra.