Pontchartrain Railroad v. New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad

How courts have described this case

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

• accused may offer to waive command influence issue, but Government may not require waiver of command influence to obtain a pretrial agreement
• “Where there is coercion in the preferral process, ‘the charges are treated as unsigned and unsworn,’ but the ‘failure to object’ constitutes waiver of the issue.”
• appellate courts are not foreclosed “from stepping in when there are actions by commanders that undermine public confidence in our sys- tem of justice or affect the rights of an accused”
• “This case does not involve the adjudi- cative process.”
• waiver of trial by court-martial composed of members

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).