United States v. Cruse

Opinion of the Court

Darden, Chief Judge:

Private Cruse questions the adequacy of the staff judge advocate’s post-trial review of his trial by special court-martial. Specifically, he contends that the review is prejudicially deficient in that it contains no discussion or analysis of the evidence presented on the merits other than a superficial summary of the testimony of some, but not all, the witnesses and that it contains no summary of the testimony of an important Government witness, Specialist Four Eckert.

A special court-martial composed of a military judge alone convicted Private Cruse of…