United States v. Williams

I join the majority in expressing dismay over the failure of the Government to act expeditiously in the appellate processing of this court-martial. I disagree only with the remedy the majority adopts to address that failure.

This case, unlike the situation we addressed in our recent decision in United States v. Thomas, 41 M.J. 873 (N.M.Ct.Crim.App.1995) concerns delay entirely at the appellate level. In Thomas, over 22 months elapsed from the date the sentence was adjudged until the date of the convening authority’s action. We relied on the underlying principle stated by the U.S. Court of…