United States v. Taylor

DECISION

HODGSON, Chief Judge:

Following mixed pleas, the accused was convicted in a bench trial of multiple drug offenses in violation of Articles 80 and 134, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. §§ 880, 934. He was sentenced to a bad conduct discharge, confinement at hard labor for one year, forfeiture *883of all pay and allowances, and reduction to airman basic.

I

The principal assigned error involves the accused’s conviction of attempting to wrongfully transfer amphetamines (Specification 1 of Charge I). This is, as trial defense counsel observed in his opening statement, a “fairly simple case.” The accused admitted…