United States v. Zakaria

GIERKE, Judge, joined by CRAWFORD, Judge

(dissenting):

Trial counsel initially offered the Letter of Reprimand which was based on five separate incidents involving appellant’s stepdaughter, a friend of the stepdaughter, and two girls of questionable repute. The defense objected to the letter of reprimand, arguing that the report of investigation on which the letter was based contained coerced, false statements and “[t]hat the investigating agent withheld evidence” and the chief of criminal law who evaluated the allegations “believes that as to three of the *285four girls mentioned in the Letter of…