United States Court of Appeals For The Armed Forces, 2016

United States v. Trejo

United States v. Trejo
United States Court of Appeals For The Armed Forces · Decided December 8, 2016
76 M.J. 40; 2016 CAAF LEXIS 979
United States v. Trejo

Opinion of the Court

CCA 20160479. On consideration of the petition for grant of review of the decision of the United States Army Court of Criminal Appeals, it is ordered that said petition is hereby granted on the following issues:

I.WHETHER ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT AS A CMCR JUDGE TERMINATED THE MILITARY COMMISSIONS OF JUDGES CELT-NIEKS AND BURTON.
II.WHETHER, AS APPOINTED JUDGES OF THE CMCR, JUDGES CELTNIEKS AND BURTON DID NOT MEET THE UCMJ DEFINITION OF APPELLATE MILITARY JUDGE.
III.WHETHER THE ASSIGNMENT OF INFERIOR OFFICERS AND PRINCIPAL OFFICERS TO A SINGLE JUDICIAL TRIBUNAL ITSELF VIOLATED THE .APPOINTMENTS CLAUSE.

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