United States v. Glaze

OPINION OF THE COURT

COOK, Judge:

In accordance with his pleas, the appellant was convicted by a special court-martial of numerous violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. We granted review to consider whether appellant’s plea of guilty to one of the offenses, resisting apprehension, was improvident. C.M.A., 8 M.J. 177 (1979).

During the inquiry into accused’s understanding of the meaning and legal effect of a plea of guilty, the trial judge reviewed the elements of the apprehension offense and then inquired, “What’s the Government’s theory as to how the resistance was accomplished?”…