Powis v. Coakley

OPINION OF THE COURT ON PETITION FOR EXTRAORDINARY RELIEF

CEDARBURG, Chief Judge:

Petitioner is currently confined at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas (USDB) serving a sentence which included four years confinement at hard labor adjudged by a general court-martial on 5 April 1978. The record of trial, upon review by this Court of his court-martial, was returned for a new staff judge advocate’s review to be prepared by a different staff judge advocate, and a new convening authority’s action because of deficiencies in the staff judge advocate’s review. United…