United States v. Deland

OPINION OF THE COURT

FOREMAN, Judge:

Contrary to his pleas, the appellant was convicted of falsifying an official document, his “officer’s record brief”; statutory rape; sodomy; and conduct unbecoming an officer, in violation of Articles 107,120,125 and 133, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. §§ 907, 920, 925 and 933 (1976). His approved sentence provides for a dismissal, confinement at hard labor for ten years and total forfeitures.

The appellant contends, inter alia, that the military judge erred by allowing a psychiatrist to testify regarding the victim’s statements about the sex…