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Update: The alleged assault took place in New Mexico. It does not appear that the acts of which he was convicted are a sex crime in New Mexico. It would appear that assault and battery is the most similar offense. It is a misdemeanor (petty) for which the maximum punishment appears to be a $500.00 plus up to six months confinement and with up to six months probation.

Update: Sentenced to reprimand and a little over $10K x five. Betting at CAAFlog was three months forfeiture of pay and the reprimand.

Air Force Times is reporting that MG Cooley has been convicted, by military judge alone.

​After about five hours of deliberation Friday and an overnight break, Jimenez — the chief circuit military judge with the Air Force Trial Judiciary, Western Circuit, at Travis Air Force Base, California — ruled Cooley is guilty of forcibly kissing the woman, the first specification in a single charge of abusive sexual contact. He is not guilty of two other specifications of groping her and moving her hand to touch his genitals over his clothes, she said.