United States v. Denier

Opinion of the Court

COX, Chief Judge:

This ease involves a post-trial claim by a defense witness that he overheard a conversation between court members indicating that the members had been subjected to unlawful command influence. We sustain the findings of both courts below that whatever the witness may have heard did not amount to evidence of command influence, so we affirm.

Appellant was convicted by a general court-martial with members at Seymour *254Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., in accordance with his plea by exceptions and substitutions of conduct unbecoming an officer, in violation of Article…