United States v. McFarlane

Opinion of the Court

GEORGE W. LatimeR, Judge:

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This is a mandatory review pursuant to Article 67 (b) (1) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 USC § 867, since the accused is presently faced with a death sentence. The facts surrounding the substantive offenses are immaterial for the reason that the error infesting the findings and sentence grows out of the tactics employed by *98trial defense counsel. He adopted a method of defense which we conclude denied the accused the sort of fair trial envisaged by the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Preliminarily, we might say that the records we…