United States v. Nebling

GLADIS, Judge:

In accordance with his guilty pleas entered pursuant to a pretrial agreement at a special court-martial bench trial, the accused was convicted of unauthorized absence, in violation of Article 86, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. section 886, and sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement for 45 days, forfeiture of $200.00 pay per month for two months and reduction to pay grade E-3. The convening authority approved the sentence.

We specified the following issues:

I. WHETHER THE MILITARY JUDGE’S PRETRIAL AGREEMENT INQUIRY SATISFIES THE MANDATE OF UNITED STATES V…