United States v. Ennis

OPINION OF THE COURT

HANFT, Judge:

While walking back to Kelley Barracks after an evening of heavy drinking in Darmstadt, Germany, Ennis and a fellow soldier by the name of Failen punctured the tires of forty-one automobiles belonging to forty different German nationals. As Ennis put it, “[m]e and Specialist Failen went out, Sir, and got drunk and we — he started cutting tires first, and then I started following right after him”. During his subsequent trial, Ennis pled guilty to forty-one specifications alleging the wrongful destruction of private property in violation of Article 109, Uniform…