United States v. Arthurs

OPINION OF THE COURT

WOLD, Senior Judge:

On 28 April 1983, appellant pleaded guilty and was convicted by a military judge sitting as a special court-martial of wrongfully distributing hashish on diverse occasions between July 1982 and January 1983. He was sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement at hard labor for 90 days, forfeiture of $382.00 pay per month for three months, and reduction to the grade of Private E-l. The convening authority approved the sentence, but suspended for six months from the date of trial the confinement at hard labor adjudged in excess of 75 days.

Appellant…