Court Opinion

ID: 9900521
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-11-18 23:02:17.441222+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:21:07.731154
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This opinion is subject to administrative correction before final disposition.

                                   Before
                        HACKEL, KIRKBY, and GROSS
                          Appellate Military Judges

                           _________________________

                             UNITED STATES
                                 Appellee

                                        v.

                        Nicholas H. GALARZA
                  Lance Corporal (E-3), U.S. Marine Corps
                                Appellant

                               No. 202300004

                           _________________________

                          Decided: 19 September 2023

      Appeal from the United States Navy-Marine Corps Trial Judiciary

                                 Military Judge:
                                  Yong J. Lee

Sentence adjudged 4 October 2022 by a special court-martial convened at
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, consisting of a military
judge sitting alone. Sentence in the Entry of Judgment: reduction to E-1,
confinement for six months, and a bad-conduct discharge.1

                             For Appellant:
             Lieutenant Commander Doug Ottenwess, JAGC, USN

   1 Appellant was credited with six days pretrial confinement credit. As an act of

clemency, the convening authority suspended two months of the adjudged confinement
for a period of six months, at which time, unless sooner vacated, the suspended con-
finement would be remitted without further action.

 19 October 2023: Administrative Correction to correct scribners errors in the
                                 caption.
              United States v. Galarza, NMCCA No. 202300004
                            Opinion of the Court

                           _________________________

       This opinion does not serve as binding precedent under
             NMCCA Rule of Appellate Procedure 30.2(a).

                           _________________________

PER CURIAM:
    After careful consideration of the record, submitted without assignment of
error, and Appellant having not challenged the factual sufficiency of this case,
we have determined that the findings are correct in law, the sentence is correct
in law and fact, and that no error materially prejudicial to Appellant’s substan-
tial rights occurred.2
   The findings and sentence are AFFIRMED.

                                  FOR THE COURT:

                                  J. TRAVIS WILLIAMSON
                                  Acting Clerk of Court

   2 Articles 59 & 66, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. §§ 859, 866.

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