Articles Posted in harmless error

I posted yesterday on a new Army case dealing with instructions on an affirmative defense in a court-martial under the UCMJ. Today I’m posting on United States v. Ramon, an unpublished opinion from the NMCCA dated 28 September 2010. In his sole assignment of error, the appellant alleges that the…

United States v. Matthews is an interesting new Army decision. In this case the appellate courts ordered a DuBay hearing.  During that hearing the prior military judge testified as to his rationale for various decisions at trial.  Using that testimony, the Army Court of Criminal Appeals applied the harmless beyond…