United States v. Edwards

In my opinion in United States v. Iverson, 5 M.J. 440, 445, 447 (C.M.A.1978), I indicated my conviction that the intention of Congress and of case precedents in this Court established that “when a case leaves the command level, the attorney-client relationship between the accused and military counsel at that level ends by operation of law.” I still have that view. However, assuming that my Brothers, not I, correctly construe the congressional intention, I am constrained to disagree with their conclusion that a new post-conviction attorney-client relationship, for the purpose of compliance…