Legal Opinion
United States v. Schweitzer
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
Decided August 31, 2009No. 08-0746/MCPublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge STUCKY
delivered the opinion of the Court. 1
Appellant was one of three electronic countermeasures officers aboard a Marine Corps aircraft piloted by Captain (Capt) Richard J. Ashby on February 3,1998, that severed two weight-bearing suspension cables of the Alpe Cermis cable ear system, near Cavalese, Italy, causing one of the system’s gondolas to plummet to the ground, killing its twenty civilian passengers. As a result of Appellant’s subsequent actions in destroying a videotape taken during that flight, Appellant pled guilty to two specifications of conduct unbecoming an officer in…
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