Bernard v. Commander, Naval Surface Forces

BAUM, Senior Judge.

This case is before the Court by way of a petition for extraordinary relief requesting reversal of the general court-martial authority’s sentence commutation, or in the alternative, reversal of the conviction due to improvidence of the guilty plea. The facts giving rise to this petition are simple. Petitioner, pursuant to his pleas of guilty, was convicted by special court-martial on 27 June 1979 of two drug offenses and sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge with no other punishment. The guilty pleas were entered in accordance with a pretrial agreement which contained the…