Mastropietro v. Nix

OPINION OF THE COURT ON PETITION FOR EXTRAORDINARY ' RELIEF

Petitioner asks this Court to direct his release from confinement at the United States Disciplinary Barracks and dismiss the charges against him because his record of trial by general court-martial has not reached this Court, five months after the convening authority took his action.* Petitioner maintains he has been denied his “... right to timely proceedings in the appellate process ...” and that “[t]he relief sought cannot be obtained during the ordinary course of appellate review because the basis of this petition is the fact that…