United States v. Lowe

Opinion of the Court

ROBERT E. Quinn, Chief Judge:

On complaint of his wife, the accused was charged with two serious sexual offenses with his six-year-old stepdaughter. A general court-martial acquitted him of one of the charges and convicted him of the other. It adjudged a sentence which includes a punitive discharge and confinement at hard labor for eighteen months. By divided vote, a board of review reversed the conviction on the ground that the law officer acted as a partisan advocate for the Government. In accordance with Article 67(b)(2), Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 USC § 867,…