Boyle v. Ferry

How courts have described this case

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• holding that military judge erred by not answering questions of members regarding effect on potential retirement benefits of BCD upon nineteen years, ten months of service
• “[Wjhere a servicemember is perilously close to retirement ... a general collateral-consequences instruction disregarding the effects of a punitive discharge on retirement will not suffice.”
• “[W]here a servicemember is perilously close to retirement . . . a general collateral-consequences instruction disregarding the effects of a punitive discharge on retirement will not suffice.”
• “Once a bad- conduct discharge is adjudged and executed, it terminates a servicemember’s military status and any concomitant right to receive military retirement benefits.”
• no error to instruct on effect of punitive discharge on retirement benefits for accused with 19 years, 10 months of service
• military judge erred in failing to correctly answer members’ questions about the effect of a bad-conduct dis- charge on retirement benefits

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