United States v. Whitt

OPINION OF THE COURT

MARDEN, Senior Judge:

Appellant was tried and convicted, contrary to his pleas, of three specifications of lewd and lascivious acts with females under the age of sixteen in violation of Article 134, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 934 [hereinafter cited as UCMJ]. He was sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement at hard labor for two years and six months, and forfeiture of all pay and allowances. The convening authority approved the sentence.

Before this Court appellant contends that the military judge erred in denying him a new Article 32, UCMJ,…