Legal Opinion
United States v. Morita
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
Decided March 16, 2015No. 14-5007/AFPublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge RYAN delivered the opinion of the Court.
The facts in this case are quite complicated and set forth in detail in United States v. Morita, 73 M.J. 548, 551-53 (A.F.Ct.Crim.App.2014). However, the relevant facts and related legal questions are relatively straightforward. 1 Appellee/Cross-Appellant (Appellee), a reservist, used his knowledge of the military travel reimbursement system, and took advantage of his supervisor’s relative lack of knowledge of the system, to file false claims of travel reimbursement totaling over $120,000. Id. at 551-52. To do this, he forged signatures on travel…
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