United States v. Zieran

OPINION OF THE COURT

FULTON, Senior Judge:

After having entered a negotiated plea of guilty to rape and receiving a sentence that included a dishonorable discharge and confinement at hard labor for fifty years (reduced to five years by the convening authority in consideration of the plea of guilty), appellant now asserts his innocence.

In affidavits, the first of which was made a few weeks after his appellate counsel submitted the case for review by this Court without assignment of error, appellant contends substantially as follows: the complainant voluntarily consented to sexual intercourse…