United States v. Birdine

BAUM, Chief Judge:

Appellant, in accordance with his pleas of guilty, was convicted by special court-martial, judge alone, of two specifications of unauthorized absence; two specifications of wrongfully using cocaine; one specification of wrongful appropriation of money of a value of about $1,400.00, the property of another Coast Guardsman; one specification of dishonorably failing to maintain sufficient funds to cover a check in the amount of $840.00 upon its presentment; and one specification of dishonorably failing to pay a debt in the sum of $8,058.44 for credit card charges incurred for a…