Mahier v. LeBlanc

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• holding that service courts of criminal appeals are not free to depart from precedent set by Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
• holding right to counsel to make decision to accept nonjudicial punishment implicit in various military statutes
• holding uncounseled Article 15s and summaty courts-martial may not be used as sentence enhancers
• plurality opinion citing United States v. Mack, 9 M.J. 300 (C.M.A. 1980), and Cox, C.J., concurring in part and in the result
• failed to follow Supreme Court teachings on the right to counsel articulated in Nichols v. United States, 511 U.S. 738 (1994), and Middendorf v. Henry, 425 U.S. 25 (1976)
• failed to follow Supreme Court teachings on the right to counsel articulated in Nichols v. United States, 511 U.S. 738, 114 S.Ct. 1921, 128 L.Ed.2d 745 (1994), and Middendorf v. Henry, 425 U.S. 25, 96 S.Ct. 1281, 47 L.Ed.2d 556 (1976)

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