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v.
David M. BROOKS, Lance Corporal
U.S. Marine Corps, Appellant
No. 07-0639
Crim. App. No. 200501266
United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
Argued February 4, 2008
Decided May 1, 2008
STUCKY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which EFFRON,
C.J., and BAKER, ERDMANN, and RYAN, JJ., joined.
Counsel
For Appellant: Lieutenant Heather L. Cassidy, JAGC, USN
(argued); Lieutenant Richard H. McWilliams, JAGC, USN.
Military Judges:
Griffith
Contrary to Appellants
Articles 128
The convening
II.
After trial, Appellant was confined in the brig at Camp
Lejeune.
The brig
He also found
III.
Appellant raised the same issue concerning the denial of
his right to appellate counsel at the court below.
The NMCCA
found the issue unripe for review in that the appellant has
failed to exhaust his available administrative remedies.
Brooks, 2007 CCA LEXIS 166, at *25, 2007 WL 1704348, at *7.
The
Claiming
Instead,
In military
Diaz v. Judge
They are not amenable to harmless error review and will always
result in reversal if properly preserved for appeal.
v. Louisiana, 508 U.S. 275, 281-82 (1993).
Sullivan
Fulminante, 499
not structural.
If an
Appellants
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