United States v. Angevine

OPINION OF THE COURT

MILLER, Senior Judge:

Appellant, an administrative clerk at the Fort Gordon, Georgia, military police (MP) station, appeals her conviction of two specifications of larceny1 contending that the military judge erred in admitting her confession. More specifically, appellant claims that the “taint” of an illegal seizure of the stolen money was not sufficiently attenuated and therefore her confession was not voluntary.

The essential facts are these. Appellant watched while MP investigator Crosby copied money on a Xerox machine. When Crosby had finished, he inadvertently left $140…