Military Court Overturns Convictions, Cites Possible Command Influence
Stars and Stripes | 25 May 2017 | by Nancy Montgomery
The military's highest court has overturned a former Aviano airman's rape and assault conviction and prison sentence, saying that the case had been compromised by apparent unlawful command influence.
In a 3-2 opinion published last week, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces said that because then-Lt. Gen. Craig Franklin, the authority in the case, had been told to retire or be fired because of his decisions in previous sexual assault cases, his move 10 days later to court-martial the airman could appear to be tainted by unlawful command influence.
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/05/25/military-court-overturns-convictions-possible-command-influence.html
