Carrión v. Nadal Carrión

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• holds that the appearance or existence of command influence provides a rebuttable presumption of prejudice and any doubts must be resolved in favor of the accused
• “Under the circumstances, we cannot say with conviction that the court-martial was uninfluenced ... in its deliberation on the sentence.”
• “As a matter of principle, any doubt in the matter must be resolved in favor of the accused.”
• “[T]he apparent existence of ‘command control’ ... is as much to be condemned as its actual existence.”
• the appearance of command influence provides a presumption of prejudice, but the presumption is rebuttable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).