United States v. Navy

GRANT, Judge:

The accused was charged at a general court-martial with separate specifications of rape and carnal knowledge and a single specification of sodomy with a child under 16 years of age in violation of, respectively, Articles 120 and 125, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Upon timely motion by trial defense counsel, the trial judge suppressed evidence of the accused’s confession admitting to all the elements of the crimes alleged, on grounds that evidence of the identity of the accused as the perpetrator of the crimes was not established by independent evidence aliunde the…