United States v. Vandermark

ABERNATHY, Senior Judge:

Appellant was convicted at a special court-martial bench trial of sixteen specifications of failure to go to his appointed place of duty and two periods of unauthorized absence totalling nearly seven months, all violations of Article 86, 10 U.S.C. § 886, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). The court sentenced appellant to a bad-conduct discharge, forty-five days confinement at hard labor and the forfeiture of $330.00 pay per month for four months. Reviewing authorities approved the sentence as adjudged. At trial appellant, through his own testimony, raised the…