Legal Opinion
United States v. Weeks
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
Decided March 12, 2012No. 11-0526/AFPublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge STUCKY
delivered the opinion of the Court.
We granted review to determine whether Appellant’s guilty plea to a forgery charge was improvident. We hold that there is a substantial legal question as to Appellant’s plea because conduct he admitted did not constitute forgery as a matter of law: “Telling a lie does not become forgery because it is reduced to writing.” In re Windsor, [1865] 122 Eng. Rep. 1288, 1291 (Blackburn, J., concurring).
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In accordance with his pleas, Appellant was convicted by a military judge alone in a general court-martial of: one specification of disobeying a…
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