United States v. Mora

OPINION OF THE COURT

COX, Judge:

This case started out as a simple guilty plea with a pretrial agreement and the military judge sitting as a general court-martial. Pleas were regularly tendered and accepted.1 During the sentencing portion of the trial, however, things began to unravel. First, trial counsel introduced a document — without defense objection — containing information that should not have been before the court.2 Fortunately, the military judge detected the items and announced that he would disregard them. Worse, defense counsel himself, apparently through carelessness, introduced…