United States v. Parker

SUSZAN, Judge:

The appellant was charged with unauthorized absence and missing movement by design in violation of Articles 86 and 87, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. §§ 886 and 887. Pursuant to a pretrial agreement, he pled guilty to unauthorized absence and, by exceptions and substitutions, to missing movement by neglect. A military judge, sitting as a special court-martial, convicted the appellant, in accordance with his pleas, of the unauthorized absence, but rejected his plea to missing movement by neglect. The convening authority then withdrew from the pretrial agreement and…