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...(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...

...s 5924.502 and 5924.506 of the Revised Code, a person is "not guilty by reason of insanity" relative to a charge of an offense only as described in division (A)(14) of section 2901.01 of the Revised Code. Proof that a person's reason, at the time of the commission of an offense, was so impaired that the person did not have the ability to refrain from doing the person's act or acts, does not constitute a defens...

...ided in section 5924.52 of the Revised Code, beginning with the junior in rank. (C) Before a vote is taken on the findings, the military judge or the president of a court-martial without a military judge shall, in the presence of the accused and counsel, instruct the members of the court as to the elements of the offense and charge them: (1) That the accused must be presumed to be innocent until guilt is esta...

...(A) No person may be convicted of any offense, except by the concurrence of two-thirds of the members of the court-martial present at the time the vote is taken. (B) All other questions to be decided by the members of a general or special court-martial shall be determined by a majority vote, but a determination to reconsider a finding of guilty or to reconsider a sentence, to decrease or lessen it, may be made...

...A court-martial shall announce its findings and sentence to the parties as soon as determined.

...h the sentence adjudged includes a bad-conduct discharge or confinement for more than six months. (2) In all other cases tried before a court-martial, the record shall contain any matters that are required by regulations of the adjutant general. A copy of the record of the proceedings of each general and special court-martial shall be given to the accused as soon as it is authenticated.

...flicted upon any person subject to this code. The use of irons, single or double, except for the purpose of safe custody, is prohibited.

...The punishment that a court-martial may direct for an offense may not exceed limits prescribed by the adjutant general for the offense.

...e under section 5924.64 of the Revised Code is pending, the adjutant general may defer further service of the sentence while the review is pending.

...d for so housing a prisoner under this code.

...-1 that includes a dishonorable or bad-conduct discharge, confinement, or hard labor without confinement reduces the member to pay grade E-1, effective on the date the convening authority approves the sentence. (B) If the sentence of a member who is reduced in pay grade under division (A) of this section is set aside or disapproved, or as finally approved does not include a dishonorable or bad-conduct dischar...

...(A) A finding or sentence of a court-martial may not be held incorrect on the ground of an error of law unless the error materially prejudices the substantial rights of the accused. (B) Any reviewing authority with the power to approve or affirm a finding of guilty may instead approve or affirm so much of the finding as includes a lesser included offense.

...court-martial case that includes a bad-conduct discharge, the convening authority or other authorized person shall obtain and consider the written recommendation of the convening authority's or other authorized person's staff judge advocate or legal officer. The convening authority or other authorized person shall refer the record of trial to the staff judge advocate or legal officer. The staff judge advocate ...

...eated by section 5924.66 of the Revised Code. (D) Any period of delay resulting from an appeal under this section shall be excluded in deciding any issue regarding denial of a speedy trial unless an appropriate authority determines that the appeal was filed solely for the purpose of delay with the knowledge that it was totally frivolous and without merit.

...uant to section 5924.60 of the Revised Code or by the court of military appeals shall take place before a court-martial composed of members who were not members of the court-martial that first heard the case. Upon a rehearing the accused may not be tried for any offense of which the accused was found not guilty by the first court-martial, and no sentence in excess of or more severe than the original sentence m...

...If an accused files a notice of appeal, the convening authority shall transmit the record of trial and post-trial proceedings in the case to the state judge advocate for appropriate action. If the accused does not file a notice of appeal or files a notice of appeal and withdraws the appeal, then following completion of all post-trial review, the record of trial and related documents shall be transmitted and dis...

...A judge of the court of military appeals shall receive as compensation for each day of attendance on the business of the court an amount equal to the annual compensation of a judge of a court of appeals divided by the number of days in the calendar year. A judge who resides more than fifty miles from the location of the court also shall be reimbursed for the judge's actual and necessary expenses of traveling to...

...The court of military appeals may subpoena witnesses, require the production of evidence, and punish for contempt in the same manner and to the same extent as a common pleas court.

...Appeals from orders and judgments of the court of military appeals may be taken to the supreme court in the same manner and to the same extent as criminal appeals from orders and judgments of a court of appeals.

...y appeals. In a case arising under this code that is heard in the supreme court, appellate government counsel shall represent the state in the supreme court unless the attorney general elects to represent the state. (C) Appellate defense counsel shall represent the accused in the court of military appeals and the supreme court unless the accused elects to be represented by civilian counsel at the accused's own...

...At any time within two years after approval by the convening authority of a court-martial sentence, the accused may petition the adjutant general for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence or fraud on the court. The adjutant general shall act upon the petition unless the case is pending before the court of military appeals or the supreme court, in which case the adjutant general shall refer the ...