United States v. Chollet

BAUM, Chief Judge:

Appellant was tried by a Special Court-Martial consisting of officer members. Despite his pleas of not guilty to the charge and specification, he was convicted of one specification of wrongful cocaine use in violation of Article 112a, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 912a. Thereafter, the court sentenced appellant to be discharged from the United States Coast Guard with a bad conduct discharge, to be reduced to pay-grade E-l and to be reprimanded. Contemporaneously, the court recommended that the convening authority reduce the discharge to one with “less than…