United States v. Nocifore

OPINION OF THE COURT

VARO, Judge:

Pursuant to his pleas, the appellant was convicted at a special court-martial empow*770ered to adjudge a bad-conduct discharge of absence without leave, resisting apprehension, and possession of cocaine, violations of Articles 86, 95, and 112a, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. §§ 886, 895, and 912a (1982 & Supp. V 1987) [hereinafter UCMJ]. His approved sentence provides for a bad-conduct discharge, confinement for thirty days, and forfeiture of $460.00 for one month.

On 1 December 1989, officers from the Long Beach, California, Police Department responded…