United States v. Beckermann

BAUM, Chief Judge:

This case is a retrial of Chief Warrant Officer James T. Beckermann on charges for which he was originally convicted and sentenced in 1986. The findings and sentence in that first trial were set aside by this Court in 1988 and an “other trial”1 authorized as a result of jurisdictional error with respect to appointment of the military judge. U.S. v. Beckermann, 25 M.J. 870 (C.G.C.M.R.1988), aff'd, 27 M.J. 334 (C.M.A.1989).

After this Court’s decision was affirmed by the U.S. Court of Military Appeals in January 1989, the record was forwarded to Commander, Maintenance and…