United States v. Parker

Serious questions have existed for a long time concerning the logical consistency of the decisions of this Court which treat compulsory sanity examinations of a military accused by government psychiatrists. See Holladay, Pretrial Mental Examinations Under Military Law: A Re-examination, 16 A.F.L.Rev. 14, 29 (No. 3, 1974) [hereafter cited as Holladay]. Tifford, Babbidge: A Time For Change, 25 JAG J. 133, 137 (1971); see also Lederer, Rights Warnings in the Armed Services, 72 Mil.L.Rev. 1, 22-23 (1976). The majority opinion ameliorates this problem to a certain extent by disapproving the…