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Coast Guard Court of Criminal AppealsUNITED STATES V SCHRADER 60 MJ 830Appellant was tried by general court-martial, military judge alone. Pursuant to his pleas of guilty, entered in accordance with a pretrial agreement, Appellant was convicted of the following offenses: two specifications of violating a lawful general regulation by wrongfully engaging in sexually intimate behavior with a female Third Class Petty Officer and a female Second Class Petty Officer at various locations at the U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, New Jersey, and two specifications of dereliction of duty by willfully failing to maintain a proper military relationship with a female Second Class Petty Officer and a female Seaman Apprentice, in violation of Article 92, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ); one specification of maltreatment of a female Seaman, in violation of Article 93, UCMJ; and two specifications of wrongfully impeding an investigation into his alleged offenses, in violation of Article 134, UCMJ.Docket No. 1197Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals1/10/20051/10/200510/24/2017
Coast Guard Court of Criminal AppealsUNITED STATES V KING 60 MJ 832Appellant was tried by special court-martial, military judge alone. Pursuant to a pretrial agreement, Appellant entered pleas of guilty to the following offenses: one specification of unauthorized absence and one specification of failing to go to his place of duty in violation of Article 86, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ); three specifications of failure to obey a lawful order and one specification of failure to obey a lawful general order in violation of Article 92, UCMJ; one specification of false official statement in violation of Article 107, UCMJ; one specification of wrongfully using marijuana in violation of Article 112a, UCMJ; three specifications of larceny in violation of Article 121, UCMJ; one specification of wrongfully making and delivering a check without sufficient funds in violation of Article 123a, UCMJ; and one specification of pandering in violation of Article 134, UCMJ. The military judge accepted Appellant’s pleas, entered findings of guilty to those offenses, and sentenced Appellant to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement for eight months, and reduction to E-1. The Convening Authority approved the sentence as adjudged but suspended confinement in excess of sixty-nine days for twelve months from the date Appellant was released from confinement as required by the pretrial agreement. The Convening Authority also credited Appellant with fifty-nine days of pretrial confinement pursuant to United States v. Allen, 17 M.J. 126 (C.M.A. 1984).Docket No. 1212Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals1/13/20051/16/200510/24/2017
Coast Guard Court of Criminal AppealsUNITED STATES V MONGROO PER CURIAMAppellant was tried by general court-martial, judge alone. Pursuant to his pleas of guilty, entered in accordance with a pretrial agreement, Appellant was convicted of the following offenses: one specification of making a false official statement, in violation of Article 107, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ); one specification of assault with a dangerous weapon, a baseball bat, in violation of Article 128, UCMJ; and one specification of making a false distress call, in violation of Article 134, UCMJ.Docket No. 1204Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals1/31/20051/31/200510/24/2017
Coast Guard Court of Criminal AppealsUNITED STATES V BUNGERT PER CURIAMAppellant was tried by special court-martial, military judge alone. Pursuant to his pleas of guilty, entered in accordance with a pretrial agreement, Appellant was convicted of one specification of attempting to wrongfully distribute methamphetamines, in violation of Article 80, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ); one specification of dereliction of duty by using a government credit card for purposes unrelated to official government travel, in violation of Article 92, UCMJ; and two specifications of wrongfully using amphetamines and methamphetamines, and one specification of wrongfully distributing methamphetamines, in violation of Article 112a, UCMJ. The military judge sentenced Appellant to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement for 180 days, and reduction to E-1. The Convening Authority approved only so much of the adjudged sentence as provides for a bad-conduct discharge, confinement for 120 days and reduction to E-1, which was within the terms of the pretrial agreement. The Convening Authority also credited Appellant with 113 days of pretrial confinement pursuant to United States v. Allen, 17 M.J. 126 (C.M.A. 1984).Docket No. 1203Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals2/23/20052/23/200510/24/2017
Coast Guard Court of Criminal AppealsUNITED STATES V SURBROOK PER CURIAMAppellant was tried by general court-martial, judge alone. Pursuant to his pleas of guilty, entered in accordance with a pretrial agreement, Appellant was convicted of the following offenses: six specifications of larceny of U.S. Coast Guard funds in the amounts of $2,400.00, $2,450.00, $2,450.00, $2,450.00, $2,000.00, and $2,400.00, respectively, in violation of Article 121, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).Docket No. 1201Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals2/5/20052/5/200510/24/2017
Coast Guard Court of Criminal AppealsUNITED STATES V HEWITT 61 MJ 703Appellant was tried by general court-martial, military judge alone. Pursuant to his pleas of guilty, entered in accordance with a pretrial agreement, Appellant was convicted of the following offenses: one specification of forcible sodomy, in violation of Article 125, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ); two specifications of indecent assault and one specification of wrongfully providing alcoholic beverage to an individual under the age of twenty-one years, in violation of Article 134, UCMJ. The judge sentenced Appellant to a dishonorable discharge, confinement for eighty-four months, and reduction to E-1. The Convening Authority approved the sentence as adjudged but suspended confinement in excess of sixty months for twelve months from the date of Appellant’s release from confinement as required by the pretrial agreement. The Convening Authority also credited Appellant with six days of pretrial confinement pursuant to United States v. Allen, 17 M.J. 126 (C.M.A. 1984).Docket No. 1220Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals3/30/20053/30/200510/24/2017
Coast Guard Court of Criminal AppealsUNITED STATES V TAYLOR - 61 MJ 640Appellant was tried by special court-martial, military judge alone. Pursuant to a pretrial agreement, Appellant entered pleas of guilty to the following offenses: one specification of dereliction of duty by willfully failing to use his Government Travel Card for only official government travel business in violation of Article 92, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ); three specifications of false official statements in violation of Article 107, UCMJ; one specification of making a false claim against the United States in violation of Article 132, UCMJ; and one specification of dishonorable failure to pay a lawful debt in violation of Article 134, UCMJ. The military judge accepted Appellant’s pleas, entered findings of guilty to those offenses, and sentenced Appellant to confinement for one hundred days, reduction to pay grade E-1, and a bad-conduct discharge. The Convening Authority approved the sentence as adjudged. The pretrial agreement had no effect on the sentenceDocket No. 1207Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals3/31/20053/31/200510/24/2017
Coast Guard Court of Criminal AppealsUNITED STATES V WALTERS - 61 MJ 637Appellant was tried by general court-martial, military judge alone. Pursuant to a pretrial agreement, Appellant, who has over twenty years of Coast Guard active duty and is eligible for retirement, entered pleas of guilty to five specifications of knowing receipt of child pornography in violation of Article 134, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). The military judge accepted Appellant’s pleas, entered findings of guilty to those offenses, and sentenced Appellant to confinement for thirty-six months, reduction to E-1, and a bad-conduct discharge. The Convening Authority approved the sentence as adjudged. The pretrial agreement had no effect on the sentence.Docket No. 1208Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals4/27/20054/27/200510/24/2017
Coast Guard Court of Criminal AppealsUNITED STATES V GRIFFIN PER CURIAMAppellant was tried by special court-martial, military judge alone. Pursuant to his pleas of guilty, entered in accordance with a pretrial agreement, Appellant was convicted of two specifications of failing to obey a lawful order, in violation of Article 92, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ); three specifications of wrongfully introducing marijuana onto the U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Petaluma and two specifications of wrongfully using marijuana, in violation of Article 112a, UCMJ; and one specification of wrongfully possessing drug paraphernalia and one specification of wrongfully possessing an altered military identification card, in violation of Article 134, UCMJ. The military judge sentenced Appellant to a bad-conduct discharge and confinement for 115 days. The Convening Authority approved the sentence as adjudged. The pretrial agreement had no effect on the sentence.Docket No. 1237Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals8/17/20058/17/200510/24/2017
Coast Guard Court of Criminal AppealsUNITED STATES V JUSIEL PER CURIAMAppellant was tried by special court-martial, military judge alone. Pursuant to his pleas of guilty, entered in accordance with a pretrial agreement, Appellant was convicted of one specification of wrongful possession of cocaine, one specification of wrongful use of cocaine, one specification of wrongful use of marijuana, one specification of wrongful introduction of cocaine onto a U.S. Coast Guard installation, and one specification of wrongful introduction of marijuana onto a U.S. Coast Guard installation, all in violation of Article 112a, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). The military judge sentenced Appellant to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement for 300 days, and reduction to E-1. Additionally, he granted Appellant 206 days of confinement credit. The Convening Authority approved the sentence as adjudged. The pretrial agreement had no effect on the sentence.Docket No. 1236Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals8/17/20058/17/200510/24/2017
Coast Guard Court of Criminal AppealsUNITED STATES V HUBBERT - 61 MJ 705Pursuant to Article 66(b), Uniform Code of Military Justice, the record of trial in this case was forwarded to this Court for review on 23 June 2005 and no assignments of errors or briefs have been filed. However, Appellant’s counsel has moved for this Court to abate the proceedings in this case ab initio based on the death of Appellant by his own hand, as reflected in Appendix A, which counsel has moved to attach. Appendix A is an email to Counsel for Appellant forwarding a Personnel Casualty Report message, date-time group 151844Z AUG 05 from COMCOGARD SECTOR SAULT STE MARIE MI, indicating that Appellant, while on active duty appellate leave, was pronounced dead on 15 August 2005, as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. On consideration of counsel’s Motion for Abatement of Proceedings and Motion to Attach Document, filed under the Court’s Rules of Practice and Procedure, with no opposition from the Government, it is, by the Court, this 25th day of August, 2005,DOCKET NO. 1240Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals8/25/20058/25/200510/24/2017
Coast Guard Court of Criminal AppealsUNITED STATES V SUPAPO - 61 MJ 718Appellant was tried by special court-martial, military judge alone. Pursuant to his pleas of guilty, entered in accordance with a pretrial agreement, he was convicted of one specification of assault consummated by a battery by unlawfully striking another Third Class Petty Officer “on the back of the head with his hand, in the face with his closed fist, and in the stomach with his knee,” in violation of Article 128, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ); and one specification of disorderly conduct the same date by “slapping, pushing, punching, and chasing” the same Petty Officer around the mess deck of their Coast Guard cutter, in violation of Article 134, UCMJ. The judge sentenced Appellant to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement for thirty days, and reduction to E-3. The Convening Authority approved the sentence as adjudged and credited Appellant with thirty days of pretrial confinement pursuant to United States v. Allen, 17 M.J. 126 (C.M.A. 1984).Docket No. 1210Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals8/30/20058/30/200510/24/2017
Coast Guard Court of Criminal AppealsUNITED STATES V THIBODEAU PER CURIAMAppellant was tried by special court-martial, military judge alone. Pursuant to his pleas of guilty, entered in accordance with a pretrial agreement, Appellant was convicted of one specification of knowingly receiving child pornography, one specification of knowingly transporting child pornography in interstate commerce, and one specification of knowingly possessing child pornography on land owned by the U.S. Government, all in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2252A, under Article 134, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). The military judge sentenced Appellant to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement for 210 days, and reduction to E-1.Docket No. 1215Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals9/9/20059/9/200510/24/2017
Coast Guard Court of Criminal AppealsUNITED STATES V MILLER - 61 MJ 827Appellant was tried by special court-martial military judge alone on 21 November 2003. After conviction of various drug offenses pursuant to pleas of guilty, entered in accordance with a pretrial agreement, Appellant was sentenced by the judge to a bad-conduct discharge and reduction to E-1, which the Convening Authority approved on 18 June 2004.DOCKET NO. 005-69-01Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals10/19/200510/19/200510/24/2017
Coast Guard Court of Criminal AppealsUNITED STATES V BENTLEY PER CURIAMAppellant was tried by special court-martial, military judge alone. Pursuant to his pleas of guilty, entered in accordance with a pretrial agreement, Appellant was convicted of one specification of wrongful use of marijuana, in violation of Article 112a, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ); and seven specifications of larceny of military property of the United States Coast Guard, in violation of Article 121, UCMJ. The military judge sentenced Appellant to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement for eight months, and reduction to E-2. The Convening Authority approved the sentence as adjudged. The pretrial agreement had no effect on the sentence.Docket No. 1234Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals7/8/20057/8/200510/24/2017
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