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No it does not. Trials do not drag on and on. No sir ... prosecutors get their turn, defense gets their turn, jury convenes, jury deliberates, jury hands verdict, judge passes on sentence. This shit all goes down in a matter of days.
I had a friend that tested positive for weed. He didn't smoke. It was an accidental ingestion (that sounds retarded but it really was), instead of discharge he demanded court-martial. Took about a month to get a trial date from the minute he opted for Court-Martial. This was serious shit, dude could have gotten jail time. He was a Senior NCO. Court convened at like 0900, over at 1000. That shit was over in literally an hour. Not guilty.
Xool.
This makes me want all cases to be military tribunal. That speed is a pretty swift trial.
It is NOT a perfect system all the time (no system is), but compared to the civilian criminal courts it is utopia. Juries are pulled from Upper Mid-Grade officers and Senior Non-Commissioned officers. Like any jury they can't have any knowledge of the defendant soldier. They are chosen from COMPETELY AT RANDOM from all available soldiers within a geo-radius. When they are on the Jury panel, that is their job. nothing else. That means there are military units that are short upper-management. That is not good most of the time. When you get to those grades the services work those cats to death - the most juice for the squeeze. That being said ... more often than not, them being gone from their duty assignments needs to not last long. Ergo ... no fucking around with legal procedure bullshit. JAG commanders have a shit ton of flexibility but installation commanders have jerked a knot in their chain for procedures that have drug on too long.
Thanks for the breakdown.