Robison v. Abbott

MEMORANDUM OPINION OF THE COURT

In the petition now under consideration, petitioner seeks his release from confinement, contending that the order by which it was directed is illegal.

It appears from the pleadings that upon the basis of his pleas of guilty, a special court-martial convicted petitioner of certain charges and imposed a sentence limited to a bad-conduct discharge. Upon review, the convening authority took the following action:

[T]he sentence is approved, but the bad-conduct discharge is changed to the lesser punishment of confinement at hard labor for two months, forfeiture of…