United States v. Fox

Opinion of the Court

A military judge, sitting as a special court-martial, convicted the accused of a number of offenses in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and imposed a sentence that includes a bad-conduct discharge and confinement at hard labor for 3 months. On this appeal, the accused challenges the admissibility of pretrial admissions he made to an agent of the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) in regard to one of the offenses, wrongful appropriation of a .45 caliber pistol.

The challenge requires detailed examination of the evidence, especially as the Court of…