Ambris v. Mukasey

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• holding that impact of conviction on retirement benefits is a collateral consequence and not a punishment
• finding no error where military judge, at trial counsel’s request and in response to a members’ question, in- structed members about the effect of a punitive discharge on retirement benefits in the absence of a defense objection
• “[I]t is only in a theoretical sense that the effect a punitive discharge has on retirement benefits can be labeled collateral.”
• no error to instruct on impact of punitive discharge on retirement where accused was retirement eligible
• loss of retirement benefits “often [is] the single most important sentencing matter to that accused and the sentencing authority”
• loss of retirement benefits “often [is] the single most important sentencing matter to that accused and the sentencing authority”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).