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Title V: MILITARY PERSONNEL POLICY

Sec. 545Uniform Code of Military Justice: prohibition of review of factual sufficiency in certain appeals before a Court of Criminal Appeals

TL;DR

Amends title 10, United States Code relating to uniform code of military justice: prohibition of review of factual sufficiency in certain appeals before a court of criminal appeals.

Statutory text

Section 866 of title 10, United States Code (article 66 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice), is amended in subsection

(d)

(1) (B)—(1)in clause (i)—(A)by striking (i);(B)by striking may consider and inserting may not consider; and(C)by striking upon request of the accused if the accused makes a specific showing of a deficiency in proof; and(2)by striking clauses (ii) and (iii).