Legal Opinion
Solorio v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided September 21, 1987No. 85-1581PublishedCited by 241 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
This case presents the question whether the jurisdiction of a court-martial convened pursuant to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (U. C. M. J.) to try a member of the Armed Forces depends on the “service connection” of the offense charged. We hold that it does not, and overrule our earlier decision in O’Callahan v. Parker, 395 U. S. 258 (1969).
While petitioner Richard Solorio was on active duty in the Seventeenth Coast Guard District in Juneau, Alaska, he sexually abused two young daughters of fellow coastguardsmen. *437Petitioner engaged in this abuse over a 2-year period until he was…
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