United States v. Carmichael

BAUM, Senior Judge:

Appellant was tried at a general court-martial, before military judge alone, on 25 April 1978. Apparently, after the trial was completed it was discovered for the first time that portions of the argument by counsel on sentence were not recorded. These missing portions were noted by the reporter in the record of trial. Everything before and after this notation, however, appears to be a verbatim transcription of the trial through sentencing.

On 27 June 1978 the military judge signed the following authentication statement which was inserted between pages 37 and 38 of the…