United States v. Haynes

DECISION

KASTL, Senior Judge:

What constitutes “new matter” — meriting a second service on an appellant — when the staff judge advocate supplements his or her review with an Addendum?

In his post-trial handwritten request for clemency, the appellant stated that he “would submit certificates and letters of appreciation but I can’t because I can’t get to them because I am in confinement____” The undated Addendum to the recommendation of the staff judge advocate treated this assertion. It noted that: (1) the Central Base Personnel Office had been contacted; (2) the appellant had been given a…