Federal · Title 10 — Armed Forces

10 U.S.C. § 858a: Art. 58a. Sentences: reduction in enlisted grade

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This statute addresses restoration of rights and back pay for military members whose sentence reduction in enlisted grade is set aside, reduced, or does not include specified punishments.

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a dishonorable or bad-conduct discharge; confinement; or hard labor without confinement; If the sentence of a member who is reduced in pay grade under subsection (a) is set aside or reduced, or, as finally affirmed, does not include any punishment named in subsection (a)(1), (2), or (3), the rights and privileges of which he was deprived because of that reduction shall be restored to him and he is entitled to the pay and allowances to which he would have been entitled, for the period the reduction was in effect, had he not been so reduced.

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