Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
v.
Raymond L. NEAL, Aviation Electronics Technician Airman
U.S Navy, Appellant
No. 09-5004
Crim. App. No. 200800746
United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
Argued September 21, 2009
Decided January 22, 2010
EFFRON, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which BAKER
and STUCKY, JJ., joined. RYAN, J., filed a separate opinion
concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which ERDMANN, J.,
joined.
Counsel
For Appellant:
(argued).
Mario H. De Oliveira
Upon appeal by
United
States v. Neal, 67 M.J. 675, 680-82 (N-M. Ct. Crim. App. 2009).
The Judge Advocate General of the Navy certified the case for
our review under Article 67(a)(2), UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. 867(a)(2)
(2006).
The charge under appeal, aggravated sexual contact in
violation of Article 120(e), UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. 920(e), involves
a new offense enacted by Congress in 2006 as part of a
comprehensive revision of Article 120.
The 2006
On review under
Part IV sets
BACKGROUND
TRIAL PROCEEDINGS
Subsequently, the
II.
We review
Appellant
10
Id.
A.
We agree.
THE NOTICE OF APPEAL UNDER ARTICLE 62
Id.
taken unless the trial counsel provides the military judge with
written notice of appeal from the order or ruling within 72
hours of the order or ruling.
11
Under Appellants
The
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continue.
As noted in the
Appellant further
13
reconsidering
14
The members
15
The
III.
16
Part B provides
STATUTORY CONTEXT
17
For example,
54.c(1)(a).
2.
with the definitions of force and sexual contact, transform noncriminal sexual contact into a criminal offense -- aggravated
sexual contact by force.
18
Articles 120(e),
120(t)(2), UCMJ.
(2)
Article
120(t)(5), UCMJ.
3.
19
First,
20
Second,
The first
After the defense meets this burden, the prosecution shall have
21
In re Winship,
The
Patterson v. New
A statute may
22
Id. at 232.
Martin also
Id.
An overlap between
Id. at 232-36.
Humanik v. Beyer,
23
Id. at 433.
Under the
(1)
Id. at 435.
Id.
Id.
Id.
Id. at 443;
24
Id.
The legislation
Id.
Id. at 1010.
25
Id. at 1016-17.
Id. at 1017.
The
court also noted with approval the fact that the affirmative
defense of consent focuses on something within the knowledge of
the accused that he may fairly be required to prove -- that the
words or overt actions of the complainant reasonably indicated
that the complainant freely agreed to engage in the sexual act.
26
C.
1.
27
See id.
The Supreme
That authority
28
As discussed in
at 1009.
Under Article 120(e), as under the District of Columbia
statute, the prosecution need not prove the absence of consent
in order to obtain a conviction.
In
29
See Neal, 67
M.J. at 678.
2.
Id. at 1016.
30
31
We
32
In that setting,
Other portions
Appellant
33
The statute
Although the
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35
In doing so,
36
None of the
37
decision in the present case does not preclude the parties from
requesting that the military judge give fresh consideration to
the question of whether the relative procedural burdens under
Article 120(t)(16) raise interpretative issues that should be
addressed through instructions or other appropriate remedies.
E.
CONCLUSION
See
If such evidence is
38
Supra Part
Supra
If evidence of consent is
As such, the
The
39
Consideration
Id.
DECISION
40
In re Winship,
This
As
The
Merely
The
__ M.J. at __ (18-20,
Merriam-
To
Id. at 1244.
To resist
Id. at 1060.
This does not encompass situations where the victim may give
some indication of assent but cannot legally consent under the
provisions of Article 120(t)(14), UCMJ.
5
Clemons, 843
Patterson, 432
U.S. at 215.
Burden allocation is of fundamental importance:
[W]here
This