United States v. Hutchison

I write separately to reinforce that I do not join in modifying the original panel’s action reducing Appellant’s sentence simply because I may disagree with that panel’s sentence assessment. To fulfill the mandate of the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, it is necessary for us to review the legal standard that the original panel applied when it modified Appellant’s sentence to determine whether the Court properly applied its authority under Article 66(e) in determining whether Appellant’s sentence was appropriate or whether the Court abused its discretion in an effort to lessen the…