United States v. Williamson
This text of 8 C.M.A. 495 (United States v. Williamson) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering United States Court of Military Appeals primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
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The unauthorized absence of the accused- from his unit for a period of seven months resulted in his trial by general court-martial, in which he was found guilty of desertion, in violation of Article 85, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 USC § 885. The conviction must be reversed for the reasons stated in United States v Cothern, 8 USCMA 158, 23 CMR 382, and United States v Soccio, 8 USCMA 477, 24 CMR 287. The record is returned to The Judge Advocate General of the Navy for reference to a board of review. The board, in its discretion, may affirm the lesser offense of absence without leave and reassess the sentence, or it may order a rehearing on the desertion charge.
Chief Judge Quinn concurs.
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