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A court-martial sentenced servicemember has the right to a speedy appeal. The right is based on the Constitution and on various interpretations of military appellate courts like the Army Court of Criminal Appeals.

The first and most command barrier to you or your loved one getting a speedy appeal is the failure of the local command to promptly and properly prepare the record of trial and send it t0 the proper Court of Criminal Appeals.

At Cave & Freeburg, LLP, we have experience with this problem. As military defense counsel we have developed a process to help speed up getting the record of trial completed. The process has worked in some cases, but that’s not guarantee for every case.

The Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals has issued an opinion in United States v. Hull.

The issues on appeal are: whether the staff judge advocate (SJA) erred by advising the convening authority (CA), pursuant to Rule for Courts-Martial (R.C.M.) 1106, that no new trial was warranted and whether the CA erred by failing to order a new trial despite the SJA’s acknowledgement that the appellant had presented new evidence that fell within the parameters of R.C.M. 1210. Further, the appellant filed a petition for a new trial pursuant to Article 73, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 873.

AFCCA denied relief on the merits of the appeal and denied a new trial. AFCCA reasoned that even if the information was newly discovered (AFCCA was not certain it could not have been obtained during pretrial preparations), the evidence would not,

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