Fendall v. Billy

How courts have described this case

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• noting that Article 66, UCMJ, authorizes reduction of “widely disparate dispositions or sentences” between “closely related” cases when “unsupported by good and cogent reasons”
• defining “closely related” cases as those that “involve offenses that are similar in both nature and seriousness or which arise from a common scheme or design”
• closely related cases “involve offenses that are similar in both nature and seriousness or which arise from a common scheme or design”
• consideration of nonjudicial disposition of co- 8 United States v. Hutchison, No. 02-5001/CG actor’s case as a basis for sentence reduction under Article 66(c)
• consideration of nonjudicial disposition of co-actor’s case as a basis for sentence reduction under Article 66(c)
• “Ordinarily, leniency towards one accused does not necessarily flow to another, nor should it.”

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