Court Opinion

ID: 9900518
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-11-18 23:02:07.140044+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:21:07.356556
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This opinion is subject to administrative correction before final disposition.

                                    Before
                        HACKEL, FLUHR, and BLOSSER
                           Appellate Military Judges

                            _________________________

                               UNITED STATES
                                   Appellee

                                          v.

                           David G. HOTZ III
                Private First Class (E-2), U.S. Marine Corps
                                 Appellant

                                 No. 202300081

                            _________________________

                            Decided: 21 September 2023

      Appeal from the United States Navy-Marine Corps Trial Judiciary

                                Military Judges:
                          Benjamin Robles (arraignment)
                               Ryan Lipton (trial)

    Sentence adjudged 5 November 2022 by a general court-martial con-
    vened at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, consisting
    of a military judge sitting alone. Sentence in the Entry of Judgment:
    reduction to E-1, confinement for 22 months, dishonorable discharge. 1

    1 Appellant received 265 days of confinement credit, consisting of 205 days of pre-

trial confinement credit and 60 days of judicially ordered credit.
                United States v. Hotz, NMCCA No. 202300081
                            Opinion of the Court

                               For Appellant:
                  Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Neely, USMC

                           _________________________

       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:

                                  MARK K. JAMISON
                                  Clerk of Court

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

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