Case v. New Orleans & C. R.

How courts have described this case

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

• convening authority’s action “must be guided by the same rules applicable to appellate authorities. The assurance must be that an accused is . . . placed in the position he would have occupied if an error had not occurred.” (citations and internal quotation marks omitted.
• where this court was confident that it could discern the extent of the trial error’s effect on the sentencing authority’s decision and therefore may adjust the sentence accordingly
• Court of Military Review must be able “confidently” to “discern the extent of [an] error’s effect on the sentencing authority’s decision” before it may purge the error by reassessment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).