United States v. Appeldorn

OPINION OF THE COURT

YOUNG, Chief Judge:

Pursuant to a pretrial agreement, the appellant pled guilty to knowingly receiving 22 computer images of child pornography and knowingly possessing 19 pages of printed computer images of child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2252A(a)(2)(A) and 2252A(a)(5)(B), and Article 134, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 934. The military judge accepted the appellant’s plea and sentenced him to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement for 9 months, and reduction to E-l. The convening authority approved the adjudged sentence.

On 8 April 2002, the appellant submitted his case to…