United States v. Sanders

Opinion of the Court

A variety of irregularities appear in this special court-martial record. They range from the substitution of appointed defense counsel on the day of trial by mimeograph order in which the name of designated counsel was blocked out and another name inked in, without any indication that the change was authorized by the convening authority (cf. United States v Tellier, 13 USCMA 323, 328, 32 CMR 323 (1962)), to conflicting notations as to the persons present at trial and the failure to attach to the transcript certain prosecution exhibits admitted into evidence. See United…