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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.