United States v. Jones

Opinion of the Court

COX, Judge:

This case requires us to decide if a military judge may correct a sentence after adjournment of the court-martial to add 6 months’ confinement. We must also decide *271if appellant’s guilty pleas were provident when the military judge did not explain fully the concept of “exclusive and concurrent federal jurisdiction” in a prosecution for an offense assimilated under the Assimilative Crimes Act.

We hold that the sentence cannot be upwardly corrected after adjournment of the court-martial, even to correct clear errors in announcement of the sentence. We further hold…