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United States v. Estrada, C.A.A.F. (2010)
United States v. Estrada, C.A.A.F. (2010)
v.
Jessica E. ESTRADA, Sergeant
U.S. Army, Appellant
No. 09-0822
Crim. App. No. 20070778
United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
Argued April 20, 2010
Decided June 7, 2010
STUCKY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which EFFRON,
C.J., and BAKER, ERDMANN, and RYAN, JJ., joined.
Counsel
Richard Gordon
The CCA
held that an Army regulation, Dept of the Army, Reg. (AR) 2710, Legal Services, Military Justice para. 5-16 (Nov. 16, 2005),
automatically voided any purported discharge because the
administrative discharge occurred prior to initial action.
68
M.J. at 549.
III.
Appellant argues that the honorable discharge she received
prior to the convening authoritys initial action remitted the
adjudged bad-conduct discharge.
Id.
United States v.
Until is commonly
(1986).
The juxtaposition of void and until in AR 27-10 is
puzzling, since the former connotes a permanent cessation of
legal effect, whereas the latter implies a temporary pause.
But
If we
See supra
68 M.J. at 551.
Id.
To avoid
Id.
V.
The judgment of the United States Army Court of Criminal
Appeals is affirmed.