United States v. Spencer

DECISION

MURDOCK, Judge:

The appellant was convicted, contrary to his pleas, of receiving stolen government property. He was sentenced to a bad conduct discharge, confinement at hard labor for two months, forfeiture of $397.00 per month for two months, and reduction to airman basic. At trial, and on appeal, he has vigorously argued that certain oral and written statements he made to a security police investigator were obtained illegally and should have been excluded. We agree.

Sometime in early February 1984, the appellant and Cris, the dependent son of an active duty senior master sergeant,…