# Cropper v. Brown

> United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims · May 23, 1994 · 6 Vet. App. 450

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6611766

## Case

- **Full name:** John E. CROPPER v. Jesse BROWN, Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- **Court:** United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
- **Decided:** May 23, 1994
- **Citations:** 6 Vet. App. 450; 1994 U.S. Vet. App. LEXIS 447; 1994 WL 197928
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Holdaway
- **Judges:** Holdaway, Ivers, Mankin
- **Cited by:** 22 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6611766

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- finding that “[t]he Board is ultimately responsible for weighing the probative value of evidence [of insanity]”
- noting that offenses that preclude the performance of military duties, such as unauthorized absence and failure to go to the appointed place of duty, are by definition not minor offenses

## Opinion text

HOLDAWAY, Judge,
concurring in part and dissenting in part:
I concur except for that portion of the opinion remanding for assessment of the post-service psychiatric report. In the absence of any plausible expert evidence that opines that the offenses committed in the service were a product of the alleged mental condition (and thus would have been a defense to those crimes at the military disciplinary proceedings), then the failure to consider such evidence would be, at the most, harmless error. Insofar as I know, one who has pyromania cannot successfully assert such a condition as a defense to the offenses of drunk and disorderly conduct, use of a controlled substance, and absence without leave.

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