United States v. Ratliff

PUBLISHED OPINION OF THE COURT

O’TOOLE, Judge:

This ease is before us on an interlocutory appeal by the Government, pursuant to Article 62, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 862, and Rule for Courts-Martial 908, Manual for Courts-Martial, United States (2005 ed.). The Government contends the military judge erred as a matter of law when he dismissed the charge and its two specifications, concluding: (1) that the 2003 and 2006 amendments to Article 43, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 843, which extended the statute of limitations for child abuse offenses, did not apply to offenses alleged to have…