United States v. Moles

FERRELL, Judge:

Appellant, pursuant to his pleas, was convicted by a special court-martial, military judge alone, of wrongful possession of 12.34 grams of phencyclidine, in violation of Article 92, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C.A. § 892. He was sentenced to confinement at hard labor for 3 months, to be discharged with a bad-conduct discharge, forfeiture of $100.00 pay per month for 3 months, and reduction to pay grade E-l. The findings and sentence were approved by the convening authority on 17 August 1978 and the supervisory authority on 25 September 1978.

During the presentencing…