United States v. Kraffa

Footnoting, without revisiting, the legislative history of article 67(bX2), Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 867(b)(2),1 I pass, as the crow flies, to the question posited with this Court by the Judge Advocate General of the Navy, namely:

*458Was the United States Navy Court of Military Review correct as a matter of law in its determination that the pleas of guilty were improvident because the military judge did not fully explain the meaning of deferment (and how deferment differs from suspension and remission) where such deficiency has been remedied by the convening authority’s…