United States v. Bruce

Opinion of the Court

ROBERT E. Quinn, Chief Judge:

A special court-martial in Japan convicted the accused of violation of a general order regarding the possession of ration cards of the Far East Exchange and wrongful use of narcotics in violation, respectively, of Articles 92 and *411134, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 USC §§ 892, 934. We granted review to consider whether two unrecorded conferences between the president of the court and trial counsel prejudiced the accused.

At trial the accused was represented by appointed military counsel and individual civilian counsel. The case was…