United States v. Pinero

HARRIS, Judge:

In accordance with mixed pleas, Appellant was convicted by a military judge sitting as a special court-martial of unauthorized absence terminated by apprehension, multiple uses of methamphetamine, and multiple uses of marijuana, in violation of Articles 86 and 112a, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. §§ 886 and 912a. He was sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge, reduction to pay grade E-l, and confinement for 72 days. The convening authority approved the findings and sentence. A pretrial agreement had no effect on the sentence.

We have carefully reviewed the record of…