United States v. Smith

OPINION OF THE COURT

De GIULIO, Senior Judge:

Pursuant to appellant’s pleas, a military judge sitting as a special court-martial found appellant guilty of two specifications of absence without leave from his unit, one specification of failure to repair, and two specifications of missing movement by design, in violation of Articles 86 and 87, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. §§ 886 and 887 (1982) [hereinafter UCMJ]. Appellant was sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement for forty-five days, and reduction to Private El. The sentence was within the terms of a pretrial…