United States v. Dawkins

OPINION OF THE COURT

COSTELLO, Judge:

Appellant was convicted by a military jury of solicitation to commit perjury and wrongfully communicating a threat, both in violation of Article 134, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), 10 U.S.C. § 934. The sentence adjudged and approved is set out above. None of appellant’s attacks on the trial outcome warrant relief, but several merit discussion.

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Dawkins was a friend of two soldiers, Wynn and Davis, who were being tried for robbery. On the first night of Wynn’s trial and the day before Davis’s began, Dawkins visited the victim, Taylor. While at the…