Legal Opinion
United States v. Flesher
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
Decided July 8, 2014No. 13-0602/ARPublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge OHLSON
delivered the opinion of the Court.
We granted review in this case to determine whether the military judge abused his discretion when he allowed a putative expert witness to testify at trial. Under the unusual set of circumstances present in this case, we conclude that the military judge did abuse his discretion by admitting this testimony, and that this error likely had a substantial influence on the panel members’ findings.
In the summer of 2010, Appellant was a specialist in the U.S. Army and lived in on-base housing at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. A family with two teenage…
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