United States v. Goodbread

I dissent. I cannot join in affirming the accused’s guilty pleas because the Government failed to adhere to the terms of the pretrial agreement pursuant to which those pleas were entered.

The accused agreed to plead guilty in exchange for the convening authority’s agreement to limit the approved sentence to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement at hard labor for 50 days, 2 months of forfeitures, and reduction to pay grade E-l. He was found guilty pursuant to his pleas and sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement at hard labor for 75 days, forfeiture of $299.00 per month for 2 months…