United States v. Nelson

OPINION OF THE COURT

PEARSON, Senior Judge:

The staff judge advocate took 146 days to transcribe appellant’s short, uncomplicated 81-page record of trial documenting a guilty plea to one specification of using cocaine. Appellant claims this “excessive delay” in post-trial processing warrants our strongest condemnation and the set aside of his conviction. While we agree this case was poorly handled — for instance, an administrative discharge board held after the trial was transcribed ahead of it — we do not find appellant was prejudiced in this case.

FACTS

On December 14, 1995, appellant pled…