United States v. Douglas

In the present case, trial counsel sought to introduce evidence of a prior conviction in support of the prosecution’s sentencing case. The military judge admitted the evidence, subject to the condition that the trial counsel *277redact information that the military judge determined to be inadmissible as either irrelevant or potentially confusing. The trial counsel neglected to redact the information before submitting it to the members of the court-martial. Contrary to the ruling of the military judge, the unredacted information was considered during the sentencing deliberation by the members. The…