United States v. Davis

OPINION OF THE COURT

Citing United States v. Allen, 17 M.J. 126 (C.M.A.1984), appellant contends that the military judge erred in failing to grant him administrative sentence credit for 27 days of pretrial confinement served in a civilian jail.

Appellant was apprehended at the Fort Benning, Georgia, commissary by the military police while using a false military identification card in an attempt to cash a forged check. At the time of his apprehension appellant told the military police that *558he was a civilian. When military authorities were unable to verify that he was a member of the military,…