UNITED STATES NAVY-MARINE CORPS
                 COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
                      WASHINGTON, D.C.

                                  Before
                  D.C. KING, A.Y. MARKS, D.A. NORKIN
                         Appellate Military Judges

                     UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

                                  v.

                       RUSSEL T. ROYSTON
              LANCE CORPORAL (E-3), U.S. MARINE CORPS

                          NMCCA 201600037
                      SPECIAL COURT-MARTIAL

Sentence Adjudged: 4 November 2015.
Military Judge: Maj F.W. Hoover, USMC.
Convening Authority: Commanding Officer, 2d Light Armored
Reconnaissance Battalion, 2d Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, CA.
Staff Judge Advocate's Recommendation: Maj K.G. Phillips, USMC.
For Appellant: CDR Brian L. Mizer, JAGC, USN.
For Appellee: Brian K. Keller, Esq.

                           26 April 2016

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                       OPINION OF THE COURT
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     After careful consideration of the record, submitted without
assignment of error, we affirm the findings and sentence as approved
by the convening authority. Art. 66(c), Uniform Code of Military
Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 866(c).



                               For the Court




                               R.H. TROIDL
                               Clerk of Court