United States v. Womack

DECISION

LEWIS, Senior Judge:

The appellant pleaded guilty to willful disobedience of a lawful order and forcible sodomy of an airman. His plea of guilty to the offense of willful disobedience of an order was conditional. The conditional plea preserves for appellate review the issue of the lawfulness of the order, a matter unsuccessfully litigated by the appellant at trial. R.C.M. 910(a)(2). The appellant’s sentence is a dishonorable discharge, confinement for five years, forfeiture of all pay and allowances and reduction to airman basic.

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