United States v. Kuehl

OPINION OF THE COURT

The appellant was tried by a special court-martial with military judge alone at the Naval Legal Services Office, San Diego, California. Pursuant to his pleas, he was found guilty of extortion, assault, and wrongful communication of a threat, in violation of Articles 127,128, and 134, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. §§ 927, 928, and 934, respectively. The sentence imposed was a bad-conduct discharge, confinement at hard labor and partial forfeitures for 6 months. Pursuant to a pretrial agreement, the convening authority approved only so much of the sentence as…