United States v. Brown

The majority holds reversal is required of the decision below affirming the results of appellant’s trial by judge alone for two reasons: First, the judge excluded testimony that appellant was

a dedicated Christian and is very involved with his church____ It is just too much out of character for him to have done something like this which would not only jeopardies [sic] his military career, but would compromise his Christian witness.

Second, the judge’s ruling on the above testimony caused the defense to withdraw a letter from his lay leader that appellant had “high moral standards” and requested…