United States v. Brooks

For shoplifting $12.65 worth of merchandise from a Marine Corps Exchange, of which he was promptly stripped upon being apprehended while leaving the store, this appellant was sentenced by the military judge to reduction to pay grade E-1, confinement for 95 days, a fine of $2,000.00 with provision for further confinement of 70 days if the fine was not paid, and a bad-conduct discharge. (A nonjudicial punishment for larceny of $25.00 and a summary court-martial for shoplifting $165.00 worth of merchandise from the Marine Corps Exchange were considered.)

When the appellant completed service of…