United States v. Mervine

DECARLO, Judge:

Appellant pled guilty at a special court-martial (military judge alone) to attempted larceny, dishonorable failure to pay a debt, and seven specifications of failure to go to his appointed place of duty in violation of Articles 80, 134, and 86 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), 10 U.S.C. §§ 880, 934, 886. He was sentenced to confinement at hard labor for two months, forfeiture of $413.00 pay per month for two months, reduction to pay grade E-l, and a bad-conduct discharge. The convening authority approved the sentence as adjudged.

While stationed at Naval Security…