United States v. Wilson

BAUM, Senior Judge:

Appellant has assigned five errors before this Court; in one he reasserts a trial challenge for cause of the military judge and in another he questions the propriety of the staff judge advocate conducting the post-trial review. The basis claimed at trial for challenging the judge was that he violated Canons 1, 2, and 3 of the Code of Judicial Conduct through comments to the staff judge advocate which “shattered” the appearance of impartiality and “perhaps the fact of impartiality.” It was the staff judge advocate’s testimony concerning this matter which underlies the…