The Convening Authority may examine the record of trial, to including findings of facts and overturn convictions based upon that review. It is a protection built into the military justice system. It doesn’t happen very often, but when it does I suspect that something just didn’t smell quite right.
Contrast this with the civilian justice system where prosecutors and judges come from and are part of the political system. They produce political results and if they don’t they are weeded out or relegated to night traffic court. Much of the abuse of our justice system is political abuse.
This is where the military justice system is headed and it will destroy the military.
Exactly right.