CORE CRIMINAL LAW SUBJECTS: Crimes: Article 134 - Misprision of
Serious Offense
1999
United
States v. Sanchez, 51 MJ 165 (conviction for failing to
report
serious offense did not violate appellant’s Fifth Amendment right
against
self-incrimination where appellant could have reported the offense
immediately
without incurring criminal liability).
(plea to misprision of a serious offense was provident where
appellant took
affirmative steps to conceal the identity of the offender after
commission of
the offense; both affirmative acts of concealing the identity of a
perpetrator
and concealing the offense itself are equally criminally culpable).