United States v. Brunelle

Opinion of the Court

We granted review to consider the effect of the failure to serve on defense counsel a copy of a second post-trial review by the staff judge advocate that had been mandated by the Court of Military Review, and three assignments of error dealing with different aspects of an alleged illegal search.

The Government concedes the “record does not indicate that a copy of” the second review was served on defense counsel as required by United States v. Goode, 1 M.J. 3 (C.M.A.1975). In United States v. Hill, 3 M.J. 295, 297 (C.M.A.1977), we held that “the purpose of Goode can be…