United States v. Bachand

OPINION OF THE COURT

MELNICK, Senior Judge:

Based on his pleas of guilty, appellant was convicted by a special court-martial authorized to impose a bad-conduct discharge of unauthorized absences from 4 March 1981 to 22 June 1981 and from 26 June 1981 to 9 November 1982. He was sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement at hard labor for three months, forfeiture of $382.00 pay per month for three months, and reduction to E-l. The convening authority approved the sentence.

At trial and before us, appellant, citing United States v. Catlow, 23 U.S.C.M.A. 142, 48 C.M.R. 758 (1974), argues that…