Legal Opinion
United States v. Phillips
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
Decided January 6, 2015No. 14-0199/ARPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge STUCKY delivered the opinion of the Court.
A military judge accepted Appellant’s unconditional guilty plea and convicted him, inter alia, of disobeying the order of his superior commissioned officer restricting him to the confines of the military installation. We granted review to consider whether the military judge should have rejected the guilty pleas because the ultimate offense was breaking restriction, a substantially less serious offense. We hold that there is no substantial basis in law or fact to question Appellant’s guilty pleas.
I. Posture of the Case
In a pretrial agreement, the…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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