United States v. Santos

BAUM, Chief Judge:

Appellant, after pleading not guilty, was convicted by Special Court-martial judge alone of one specification of wrongful use of cocaine in violation of Article 112a, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 912a. Thereafter, the judge imposed a sentence of a Bad Conduct Discharge and reduction to E-3, which the convening authority approved without modification. Before this Court, appellant has assigned one error, that the sentence was disproportionate. We disagree.

In one of this Court’s most recent cases, U.S. v. Hardin, 29 M.J. 801 (C.G.C.M.R.1989), a commissioned officer who had been sentenced…