United States v. McCarthy

OPINION OF THE COURT

McLAUTHLIN, Senior Judge:

Were the appellant’s initial admissions to authorities the product of an improper custodial interrogation? Did investigators later interview him without honoring his request for counsel? We answer “no” to both questions and, finding no merit in the other errors asserted, affirm the findings and the sentence.

After denial of the motion to suppress his confessions and the evidence derived from those confessions, Staff Sergeant McCarthy entered conditional pleas of guilty to using and possessing cocaine.1 His approved sentence consists of a bad-conduct…