United States v. Gunter

17. The majority opinion separately discusses what it considers to be two related but distinct concepts: right of self-help to obtain property and a claim of right to possession of *298certain property. But see United States v. Eggleton, 22 USCMA 503, 505 n.2, 47 CMR 920, 922 n.2 (1973) (referring to “the doctrine of self-help based on a claim of right”); but cf. United States v. Petrie, 1 MJ 332, 334 and n. 4 (CMA 1976) (person does not have intent to steal when “he has a [claim of] right to that property” either because he owns the property or because he believes that he has a right to its…