United States v. Batteas

ROOT, Judge:

Appellant stands before this Court, having been convicted below of a charge and three specifications of attempting to damage certain boiler room machinery in USS SOMERS (DDG 34), and a charge and one specification of intentionally inflicting grievous bodily harm. His sentence extended to confinement at hard labor for 5 months, forfeiture of $249.00 per month for 6 months, and a bad-conduct discharge. In approving the sentence, the convening authority suspended the bad-conduct discharge and 2 months of confinement for a probationary period in accordance with a pretrial agreement.…