United States v. Hilt

DECISION UPON RECONSIDERATION

HODGSON, Chief Judge:

Our original decision was released on 16 January 1984, and the case is again before us on a motion for reconsideration. The motion is granted.

The accused was sentenced to a bad conduct discharge, confinement at hard labor for six months and reduction to airman basic.

As a result of what appellate government counsel lightly term an “administrative oversight,” the accused served an additional 50 days’ post trial confinement beyond his minimum release date. Apparently, the supervisory authority’s action reducing the confinement portion of the…