Whether a military appellate court's affirmation of a sexual assault conviction under the Uniform Code of Military Justice comports with due process and constitutional protections for criminal defendants

No question identified. : IN THE Supreme Court of the Anited States DENNIS A. GEORGE, JR., Applicant, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Respondent. Application to the Hon. John G. Roberts, Jr. for Extension of Time to File a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces Pursuant to Supreme Court Rules 13(5), 22, and 30, the Applicant, Dennis A. George, Jr., requests a 60-day extension of time, to and including December 18, 2025, to file a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari. Unless an extension is granted, the deadline for filing the Petition will be October 19, 2025. This Application is being filed more than 10 days before that date. In support of this application, Applicant states the following: 1. The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF) rendered its decision on July 21, 2025. This Court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1259(1). A copy of the CAAF’s decision is attached to this application. 2. Applicant, a member of the United States Air Force, was tried by a general court-martial composed of officer and enlisted. Contrary to his pleas, he was convicted of one specification of attempted sexual assault without consent, in violation of 10 U.S.C. § 880. The Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals (AFCCA) reviewed the Applicant’s case and affirmed the findings and the sentence. United States v. George, __M.J. __, 2025 CAAF LEXIS 577, at *1 (C.A.A.F. Jul 21, 2025). 3. Applicant petitioned the CAAF to review the AFCCA’s decision. The CAAF granted review of the case. On July 22, 2025, the CAAF issued its decision for the case and affirmed the AFCCA’s decision. 4. Applicant’s latest Air Force Appellate Defense Counsel, Major Megan Crouch, is Applicant’s military counsel for the purposes of his Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, but she is also detailed to 19 other cases, including three cases that will also be filing a petition for a writ of certiorari before this Court. Since the CAAF’s decision, counsel’s statutory obligations in representing other clients required her to complete briefing in a variety of other cases before the AFCCA and the CAAF. 5. Additionally, the Air Force Appellate Defense Division currently does not have paralegal support to assist with formatting petitions for this Court or filings before any other court. Applicant’s appellate defense counsel will be responsible for formatting the lower courts’ decisions for this petition and the other petitions to be filed before this Court. The reduction of paralegal support has severely hampered the Division’s ability to prepare petitions before this Court. 6. Further, the printing process required for Applicant’s petition must be processed through a federal government agency (the Air Force), which has payment and processing requirements a private firm does not. The procurement process for a printing job cannot be forecasted with certainty, often has delays, and cuts approximately two weeks out of undersigned counsel’s time to finalize the petition for a writ of certiorari. The close of the fiscal year and federal agency budgetary limitations are also adding to the normal delays and constraints associated with processing printing through the Air Force. 7. Applicant thus requests a 60-day extension for counsel to prepare a petition that fully addresses the issues raised by the decision below and frames those issues in a manner that will be most helpful to the Court. For the foregoing reasons, Applicant respectfully requests that an order be entered extending the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari up to, and including, December 18, 2025. Respectfully submitted, Mey GaP Megan R. Crouch, Maj, U.S. Air Force Counsel of Record Air Force Appellate Defense Division 1500 Perimeter Road, Suite 1100 Joint Base Andrews NAF, MD 20762 megan.crouch. 1@us.af.mil (240) 612-4770 September 30, 2025 This opinion is subject to revision before publication. UNITED STATES Court OF APPEALS FOR THE ARMED FORCES UNITED STATES Appellee V