Case ID: cma_18/html/0592-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Darden, Judge: Ferguson, Judge:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES, Appellee v RAMON C. OJEDA-VEGA, Private, U. S. Marine Corps, Appellant
    18 USCMA 592, 40 CMR 304
    No. 22,282
    September 19, 1969
    
      Captain John N. Stafford, USMCR, was on the pleadings for Appellant, Accused.
    
      Lieutenant Colonel Charles J. Keever, USMC, was on the pleadings for Appellee, United States.
   Opinion of the Court

Darden, Judge:

Having entered a plea of guilty, the accused was then convicted by a special court-martial at Camp Pendleton, California, of absence without leave, in violation of Article 86, Uniform Code of ■Military Justice, 10 USC § 886. The providence of his plea is now questioned.

The inquiry made in this case regarding the plea is comparable to that found in United States v Care, 18 USCMA 535, 40 CMR 247. The procedure followed, however, would not meet the standard that must apply to cases tried thirty days after the decision in United States v Care, supra. Regardless, we have no doubt that the guilty plea is provident, for the accused, in mitigation, admitted the unauthorized absence charged, explaining that his action was dictated by family problem’s.

Accordingly, the decision of the board of review is affirmed.

Chief Judge Quinn concurs.

Ferguson, Judge:

I concur in the result. See my dissenting opinion in United' "Statés v Care, 18 IJSCMA 535? 40 CMR 247: