United States v. Williams

OPINION OF THE COURT

JAMES, Judge:

Sergeant Williams was convicted by a general court-martial of three rapes, a robbery, sodomy, and an aggravated assault.1 On appeal he contests the propriety of identifications resulting from a photographic line-up, identification of his automobile, admissibility of testimony about blood type analysis by the investigators, the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the convictions, “future dangerousness” testimony in sentencing, the severity of the resulting sentence, and the convening authority’s qualifications to act on the sentence.

After we first decided…