United States v. Varela

MITCHELL, Senior Judge:

The appellant was convicted at a contested special court-martial (members) of a single offense of use of cocaine (urinalysis) and incurred an approved sentence to, inter alia, a punitive discharge. He complains to this Court that the military judge erred by not permitting trial defense counsel to offer evidence in support of the credibility of the appellant after his character for truthfulness had been attacked. We disagree and affirm.

At trial, the crux of the defense was that the urinalysis test results were inaccurate and the sample handling procedures faulty.…