United States v. Barton

Opinion of the Court

On March 25, 1976, the General Counsel, Department of Transportation, certified two issues to this Court:1

Was the Court of Military Review correct in determining that a videotape transcript does not, as a matter of law, constitute a transcript, verbatim or otherwise, as that term is used in the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, 1969 (Revised edition)?

Was the Court of Military Review correct in its conclusion that it had not been presented with a record of trial because that record contained a videotape transcript in lieu of a written transcript?

Appellants were…