United States v. Jursnick

DECISION

LEWIS, Judge:

The appellant was found guilty pursuant to pleas of wrongful uses of cocaine on *506consecutive evenings, 9 and 10 April 1986, in Madrid, Spain. He attempted to plead guilty to specifications alleging wrongful distributions of cocaine occurring on the same evenings. However, two successive military judges declined to accept his pleas of guilty after concluding that his responses during the providence inquiry raised the issue of entrapment and, thus, failed to provide a factual basis for the pleas. R.C.M. 910(e). Pleas of not guilty were subsequently entered.

Following a trial…