United States v. Finn

MITCHELL, Judge:

The appellant was convicted of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and possession of drug abuse paraphernalia. He assigns as error that the military judge did not explain the elements of the object offense of the conspiracy and did not conduct an inquiry into all of the elements of the object offense, thus rendering his guilty pleas improvident.

*697In conducting the providence inquiry, the military judge manifestly did not separately treat the substantive and object offenses involved in the conspiracy charge. He informed the appellant of the elements of conspiracy,…