United States v. Hinton

OPINION OF THE COURT

Contrary to his pleas, appellant was found guilty by a BCD special court-martial of one charge of assault and one of aggravated assault, both under Article 128, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), 10 U.S.C. § 928. The approved sentence is set out above.

Appellant’s principal assertion before us is that he was denied military due process of law by the intrusion of unlawful com*565mand influence into the pretrial proceedings. Our disposition of that issue moots appellant’s other assignments of error. We find that there was error in the pretrial proceedings, but that it was…