Posted on 10/21/2005 6:33:00 PM PDT by mdittmar
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including chapter 47 of title 10, United States Code (Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. 801-946), and in order to prescribe amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, prescribed by Executive Order 12473, as amended, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Part II of the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, is amended as follows:
(a) R.C.M. 103(2) is amended by replacing the word "without" with the word "with" and by replacing the word "noncapital" with the word "capital".
(b) R.C.M. 201(e)(2)(B) is amended by adding the word "general" between the words "convene" and "courts-martial" and by inserting the following words after "armed forces":
"assigned or attached to a combatant command or joint command".
(c) R.C.M. 201(e)(2)(C) is amended by inserting the words "assigned or attached to a joint command or joint task force," immediately before the words "under regulations which the superior command may prescribe".
(d) R.C.M. 201(e)(3) is amended by inserting the following immediately after the words "armed force":
", using the implementing regulations and procedures prescribed by the Secretary concerned of the military service of the accused,".
(e) R.C.M. 201(e)(4) is amended by adding the words ", member, or counsel" after the words "military judge".
(f) R.C.M. 201(f)(1)(A)(iii)(b) is amended to read as follows:
"(b) The case has not been referred with a special instruction that the case is to be tried as capital."
(g) R.C.M. 307(c)(4) is amended by inserting the following at the end thereof:
"What is substantially one transaction should not be made the basis for an unreasonable multiplication of charges against one person."
(Excerpt) Read more at whitehouse.gov ...
Yup, but do you see those words and by replacing the word "noncapital" with the word "capital". Well that will keep me in line, that's for sure, so guess I can't tell you.
well here's the whole book
http://www.uscg.mil/legal/mj/mcm2005.pdf
Can you make heads or tails of this???
Nope. That's why you'd need a lawyer. Military preferred.
There is nothing like that in the document, but it's an amendment doc; there could be others. By its context, I suspect it's an edit of the court martial manual and there would be a number of these floating around.
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