United States v. Allen

Opinion of the Court

FLETCHER, Judge:

For a period of 81 days prior to his general court-martial *, appellant was legally confined. Appellant now argues on this granted appeal that this period should be credited against the 24 months’ sentence to confinement awarded him. The basis of his claim is grounded in DOD Instruction 1325.4 (October 7, 1968) which states, inter alia, that procedures employed by the military services for computation of sentence are to be in conformity with those published by the Department of Justice. Appellant argues that since the Department of Justice, following the…