Court Opinion

ID: 8575706
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-23 15:14:58.153941+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:54:01.999468
License: Public Domain

Duncan, Judge
(dissenting):
Although the 1-month confinement at hard labor which the appellant was sentenced to serve was only one-sixth of the maximum confinement imposable by this special court-martial, he was also awarded a bad-conduct discharge for a single specification alleging an absence without leave for 49 days. In this posture of the record, I am unable to state that the sentence might not have been different if the court had been aware that the evidence of previous convictions “had been unconstitutionally obtained.” United States v Tucker, 404 US 443, 448 (1972). See my separate opinion in United States v Alderman, 22 USCMA 298, 46 CMR 298 (May 26, 1973).