United States v. Carter

OPINION OF THE COURT

CLAUSEN, Chief Judge:

Appellant was convicted, contrary to his pleas, of three specifications of soliciting a bribe and one specification of receiving a bribe, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 201(e) and Article 134, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), 10 U.S.C. § 934. These offenses arose out of events preceding the trials of two other noncommissioned officers for the larceny of a large quantity of cigarettes from a commissary warehouse in Bangkok, Thailand.

In exchange for his testimony against these two NCO’s, appellant received a grant of transactional immunity covering…