United States v. Stuart

OPINION OF THE COURT

WERNER, Judge:

The appellant pled guilty before a special court-martial to two specifications alleging unauthorized absences from his unit in violation of Article 86, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 886 (1982). His sentence, as approved by the convening authority, provides for a bad-conduct discharge to be suspended for eight months with provision for automatic remission, confinement for one hundred days, forfeiture of $523.00 pay per month for three months, and reduction to Private El.

The appellant contends that the military judge erroneously failed to grant…