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· 7/18/1878

Brooks v. The D. W. Lenox

Citations

  • 4 F. Cas. 273
  • 35 Leg. Int. 404
  • 1878 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 116

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that a military court of criminal appeals has “awesome, plenary, de novo power of review . . . to, indeed, ‘substitute its judgment’ for that of the military judge” and need not apply deferential standards of review when it deems such deference inappropriate
  • holding that a military court of criminal appeals has “awesome, plenary, de novo power of review . . . to, indeed, ‘substitute its judgment’ for that of the military judge” and need not apply deferential standards of review when it deems such deference inappropriate
  • holding that a military court of criminal appeals has “awesome, plenary, de novo power of review . . . to, indeed, ‘substitute its judgment’ for that of the military judge” and need not apply deferential standards of review when it deems such deference inappropriate
  • referring to the Article 66(c), UCMJ, power of the lower court as an “awesome, plenary, de novo power of review”
  • recognizing CCAs’ “awesome, plenary, de novo power of review”
  • describing then-Article 66(c) as an “awesome, plenary, de novo power of review” that author- izes a service court to “ ‘substitute its judgment’ for that of the military judge”

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Judges: Nixon

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