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...In the organized militia not in federal service, any commander authorized by regulation in the grade of colonel or a higher grade may convene special courts-martial.

...In the organized militia not in federal service, any commander authorized by regulation in the grade of lieutenant colonel or a higher grade may convene a summary court-martial.

...an be avoided, a person subject to this code shall not be tried by a court-martial, any member of which is junior to the person in rank or grade. (2) When convening a court-martial, the convening authority shall detail as members of the court-martial members of the organized militia who, in the convening authority's opinion, are best qualified for the duty by reason of age, education, training, experience, len...

...e to perform legal functions under this code may perform those functions, as needed, for any other component of the organized militia.

...(A) The state judge advocate shall detail trial counsel, defense counsel, and assistants that the state judge advocate considers appropriate. No person who has acted as investigating officer, military judge, or court member in any case may act later as trial counsel, assistant trial counsel, defense counsel, or assistant defense counsel in the same case. No person who has acted for the prosecution may act later...

...Under such regulations as the adjutant general may prescribe, the convening authority of a general or special court-martial shall detail or employ qualified court reporters, who shall record the proceedings of and testimony taken before that court, and may detail or employ interpreters, who shall interpret for the court.

...(A) No member of a general or special court-martial shall be absent or excused after the court has been assembled for the trial of the accused except for physical disability, as a result of a challenge, or by order of the convening authority for good cause. (B) Whenever a general court-martial, other than a general court-martial composed of a military judge only, is reduced below five members, the trial may n...

... be signed by a person subject to this code under oath before a commissioned officer of the organized militia authorized to administer oaths and shall state both of the following: (1) That the signer has personal knowledge of, or has investigated, the matters set forth in the charges and specifications; (2) That those matters are true in fact to the best of the person's knowledge and belief. (B) Upon the pr...

...(A) No person subject to this code may compel any other person to incriminate the other person or to answer any question, the answer to which may tend to incriminate the other person. (B) No person subject to this code may interrogate or request any statement from an accused or a person suspected of an offense, without first informing the accused or person suspected of the nature of the accusation and advisin...

...When a person is held for trial by general court-martial, the commanding officer shall, not later than the eighth day after the accused is ordered into arrest or confinement, forward the charges, together with the investigation and allied papers, to the general court-martial convening authority. If that is not practicable, the commanding officer shall report in writing to the convening authority the reasons for...

...e charge alleges an offense under this code and is warranted by evidence indicated in the report of the investigation. (B) If the charges or specifications are not formally correct or do not conform to the substance of the evidence contained in the report of the investigating officer, formal corrections and such changes in the charges and specifications as are needed to make them conform to the evidence may b...

...The trial counsel to whom court-martial charges are referred for trial shall cause to be served upon the accused a copy of the charges upon which trial is to be had. Except in time of declared war, no person may, against the person's objection, be brought to trial or be required to participate alone or with counsel in a session called by the military judge in a general or special court-martial case within twen...

... contrary to or inconsistent with this code.

...(A) The trial counsel of a general or special court-martial shall prosecute in the name of the state and shall, under the direction of the court, prepare the record of the proceedings. (B) The accused has the right to be represented in the accused's defense before a general or special court-martial by civilian counsel if provided by the accused at the accused's own cost, by military counsel of the accused's o...

...The military judge or a court-martial without a military judge may, for reasonable cause, grant a continuance to any party for such time, and as often, as may appear to be just.

...d under section 5924.16 of the Revised Code, any remaining peremptory challenges shall be exercised or waived before additional members are detailed. (D) Additional members detailed to a court-martial may be challenged for cause as provided in division (A) of this section. After challenges for cause against the additional members are presented and decided, each accused and trial counsel is entitled to one per...

...(A) Before performing their respective duties, military judges, interpreters, members of general and special courts-martial, the trial counsel, the assistant trial counsel, the defense counsel, the assistant defense counsel, and reporters shall take an oath or affirmation to perform their duties faithfully. The oath or affirmation shall be taken in the presence of the accused and shall be substantially as follo...

... with an offense punishable under this code is not liable to be tried by court-martial or punished under section 5924.15 of the Revised Code if the offense was committed more than four years before the receipt of sworn charges and specifications by an officer exercising court-martial jurisdiction over the command. (B) Periods in which the accused was absent from the state, is in the custody of civil authoriti...

...(A) No person may be tried a second time in any court-martial of this state for the same offense. (B) No proceeding in which an accused has been found guilty by a court-martial upon any charge or specification is a trial for purposes of this section until the finding of guilty has become final after review of the case has been fully completed. (C) A proceeding that, after the introduction of evidence but befo...

...(A) An accused may plead not guilty, not guilty by reason of insanity, guilty, or, with the consent of the court, no contest. A plea of not guilty by reason of insanity shall be made in writing by either the accused or the accused's attorney. All other pleas may be made orally. The pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity may be joined. (B) If an accused refuses to plead, the court shall enter...

...(A) The trial counsel, the defense counsel, and the court-martial shall have equal opportunity to obtain witnesses and other evidence in accordance with such regulations as the adjutant general may prescribe. (B) Process issued in court-martial cases to compel witnesses to appear and testify and to compel the production of other evidence shall be substantially similar to process that may be issued by the cour...

...Any person not subject to this code who has been duly subpoenaed to appear as a witness or to produce books and records before a military court or before any military or civil officer designated to take a deposition to be read in evidence before a military court or has been duly paid or tendered the fees and mileage of a witness at the rates provided for under section 119.094 of the Revised Code and who willful...

...ed for in Chapter 2705. of the Revised Code, may punish for contempt any person who is guilty of any act described in section 2705.02 of the Revised Code.

...vided in section 5924.30 of the Revised Code, any party may take oral or written depositions in the manner and for the purposes provided in the Ohio Rules of Criminal Procedure.

...(A) In any case, the sworn testimony contained in the duly authenticated record of proceedings of a board of officers of a person whose oral testimony cannot be obtained may, if otherwise admissible under the rules of evidence, be read in evidence by any party before a court-martial if the accused was a party before the board of officers and if the same issue was involved or if the accused consents to the intro...