United States v. Steffey

Opinion of the Court

Darden, Chief Judge:

The question presented by the certificate of the Acting Judge Advocate General, United States Army, is whether the United States Army Court of Military Review correctly directed a new action by the convening authority because it doubted he had been made aware of the military judge’s recommendation that the adjudged punitive discharge be suspended.

At the conclusion of the accused’s trial by general court-martial, the military judge announced a sentence to a bad-conduct discharge and confinement at hard labor for 5 months. He then recommended to the…