United States v. Plowman

NAUGLE, Judge:

In accordance with his pleas, the appellant was convicted by a military judge sitting as a special court-martial of three separate periods of unauthorized absence in violation of Article 86, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 886. The adjudged sentence included a bad-conduct discharge, confinement for 65 days, and reduction to the lowest enlisted pay-grade. The convening authority approved the sentence as adjudged, but suspended confinement in excess of 50 days for 12 months from the date adjudged, as required by the pretrial agreement.

We have examined the record of…