Legal Opinion
United States v. Turner
United States Court of Military Appeals
Decided September 3, 1991No. 65,020; CM 8902255PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court
COX, Judge:
Today we decide whether a servicemember obstructed military justice when she presented a false urine sample during a random, command-directed urinalysis inspection. 32 MJ 41. See Art. 134, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 USC § 934. We hold that she did not because the test was administered as part of a unit inspection and, therefore, her action, although an attempt to preclude the discovery of her recent drug use, did not amount to obstruction of military justice.
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Appellant admitted during the providence inquiry that sometime between January 3 and 17, 1989,…
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