United States v. Valadez

DUNBAR, Senior Judge:

Appellant was tried by special court-martial convened by the Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division, at Camp Pendleton, California on 6 and 7 January 1977. He pled guilty to two specifications of disrespect to a superior noncommissioned officer and one specification of assaulting a superior noncommissioned officer in contravention of Article *108891, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 891, after a motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction had been decided against him. The court constituted of a military judge alone accepted the pleas as providently made and…