United States v. Bayle

BAUM, Chief Judge:

Appellant was tried by general court-martial, military judge alone. Under a pretrial agreement, he pled guilty and was convicted of one specification of violating a lawful general order by wrongfully using a Coast Guard computer to access, view, download, modify, and store computer files containing images depicting nudes, erotica, and sexually explicit conduct, in violation of Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), 10 USC § 892. Among other things, the pretrial agreement required the convening authority to defer all administrative forfeitures imposed…