United States v. Warden

OPINION OF THE COURT

BECHTOLD, Judge:

In accordance with her plea, the appellant was found guilty by officer members of one specification of wrongful appropriation, on divers occasions, in an aggregate amount of $1,500.00, in violation of Article 121, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 921. The members sentenced her to a bad-conduct discharge and reduction to E-l. The convening authority approved the findings and sentence as adjudged.

The appellant alleges error by the military judge in determining and in instructing the members that a bad-conduct discharge (BCD) was authorized in this case. The trial defense…