Court Martial Defense

The Government Has a Case. You Need a Defense.

How To Take The Fight To The Military Justice System And Win

When you joined the military, you never thought you would be here. Maybe you were after a Ranger tab, a shot at BUD/S, or the title Marine. Maybe the plan was one enlistment and college. Maybe you were going to make a career of it and stay until retirement. What you didn’t join for was to find yourself facing a military court martial and yet, that may very well be the scenario before you right now. It’s scary as hell and rightfully so.

The military justice system is designed to obtain convictions for the sake of “good order and discipline.” It is not a system designed to discover truth. Overzealous prosecutors and investigators do not get command recognition for admitting when they were wrong, when they wasted thousands of dollars and hundreds of man-hours trying to validate a bogus theory or a false accusation. Even if you are so much as under investigation right now, the sum of the military justice system, with every asset at its disposal, exists for the purpose of convicting you. It sucks. It’s not right and it most certainly is not justice.

If that is what you are facing right now, your only reasonable option is to give the military justice system the very thing they don’t want. That is a fight. You fight like hell for yourself, your family, your career, your retirement, and maybe even your freedom…literally. Watch how quickly they’ll move on to the next guy when you present yourself as a hard target. Watch what happens to those who don’t fight. It’s not pretty.

What You Are Up Against In a Military Court Martial

Preferral of Charges

The first step in the process of a military court martial is what is known as the preferral of charges. This is the formal bringing of charges under the UCMJ, but here is an important factor to consider. By the time your charges are preferred, the military justice system may have spent anywhere from three months to over a year building a case against you. That’s not to say that the case they built against you is solid; rather, that they are heavily invested in your conviction. They don’t admit wrongdoing willingly.

You may get called into your commander’s office, where they hand you the charge sheet and read the charges to you. They can do that without a hint that they are going all in on a sloppy and ill-conceived investigation. That’s because - at this point - backing down is not an option for them. Reputations are on the line. This may be the first time you know exactly what you have been charged with, and if you have not started preparing to fight back, you’re about 30 minutes late.

Counsel Before and After Preferral

You can seek free military defense advice during the investigation. That is not the same as having a lawyer detailed to defend the entire court-martial. However, it is important to note that you can bring in your own civilian attorney right from the moment you know you are being investigated. You should retain a court martial lawyer when being investigated because the military can have a year plus head start on proving your guilt otherwise. Oftentimes, we can stop you from ever being charged if we get involved early enough.

If you first meet your detailed military defense attorney after charges are preferred, that lawyer may be learning your name while the prosecution has been thinking about you for a long time. By the time your free military lawyer does his or her first introduction, the Government attorneys will have already packaged up and put into binders your career history, the interviews with your friends, family, and coworkers, and every other piece of evidence they will use to convict you. By the time you meet your appointed lawyer, the prosecution’s trial binder will be well used and worn. We’ll say it again, you should have started fighting earlier, but if not then, now. Now is the time to get serious about the fight of your life. So, let’s run through the process of what you will face from here.

Article 32 Hearing:

Before referral to a general court-martial, an impartial preliminary hearing officer examines probable cause, jurisdiction, the form of the charges, and recommended disposition. The hearing is required unless you submit a written waiver and the convening authority or special trial counsel exercising authority determines that it is not required. Probable cause is a pretty low bar to establish, and many court martial defense attorneys - out of pure laziness - will tell you to waive the Article 32 hearing. Waiving it out of laziness, without deciding what the hearing could accomplish for your defense, is a huge mistake that could cost you big time. We’ll cover that more when we talk tactics.

Referral of Charges:

This is the order sending the charges to a specified court-martial for trial. For charges over which special trial counsel exercises authority, the referral decision belongs to special trial counsel. In other cases, it belongs to the proper convening authority, which may be a Commanding General or Admiral. Here too is a missed opportunity that lazy defense attorneys or overworked, disinterested JAGs miss. There is an opportunity here to get the words that we want on paper right in front of the official who actually controls the referral decision.

Arraignment:

This is an important milestone, because this is where the attorneys will make a formal appearance. If you have not retained a civilian attorney by now, you are missing an opportunity to shape the timing and schedule of the trial. If you let the military justice system dictate the pace, they are going to aim for a quick trial date that gives you less time to prepare. We press for the time the defense needs; the military judge controls the schedule.

Litigating Motions:

Here is where you’ll have witness production requests, expert production requests and any other motions that need to get litigated. Here is an important part you need to consider when working with JAG defense counsel. They can make life very difficult for the prosecution in this process. They know it, but they have to choose to do it. This again is one of those factors when your defense attorney is chasing a career within the same system that is dedicated to finding your guilt. What kind of JAG are you going to get? It’s a crapshoot and that’s the cold hard truth.

Jury Selection and Trial:

If the case doesn’t plead out prior to this point, then it is game on for a full trial by court martial. If members will decide guilt, the panel will be selected and the trial will commence. If the case is tried by military judge alone, the judge decides guilt. Remember just how many resources were expended by the military justice system to get to this point. They have spared no expense to obtain your conviction and they do not like to lose. If you have not stepped into that courtroom with the full confidence that you and your defense have done everything possible to prepare for this moment, the military justice system will roll over you like a tidal wave without so much as a hint that they noticed you were even there. And when it’s over, you will be another notch on an ambitious prosecutor’s belt.

Conviction and Sentencing:

Here is where it gets real, if it is not real enough for you already. Knees buckle and tears are shed when the military justice system brings down the hammer. If you are convicted of an offense, sentencing can follow quickly, and it is then immediately clear that the military justice system knew all along what they wanted to do with you - how they wanted to make an example out of you. You’ll find out the hard way, that it was never justice they were seeking, but order. They will have order in their domain and if they have to crush your soul to get there, they’re not going to shed any tears about it.

Not on our watch. Not if we have anything to say about it. Now, let’s get to the good stuff. Let’s talk about how to win.

Where To Stand and Where To Fight

You can look back at the various steps of the court martial and ask where it is that you make your stand and where you fight back. Our answer is every single step along the way. The game is far too rigged in the prosecution's favor to give them a single inch. We fight them every step of the way. We’ll even fight during the investigation process to try and derail the case before it picks up steam…that’s if we’re with you from the start. However, if your command is dead set on making an example out of you and the preferral of charges is imminent, let’s talk about how we fight back.

Come To The Preferral Ready To Fight:

As mentioned, when we get involved with a case during the investigation stage, we work hard to avoid charges to begin with. In some cases, we’re able to do this through back-channels or through the leverage of our own investigation. In other cases, where the Government’s priority is making you an example, there is no backing down - neither them nor us.

Remember, you can get free military defense advice before preferral. But if you wait until charges are preferred to meet your detailed military defense lawyer, that lawyer may be learning your name and may only just be seeing the charge sheet. Meanwhile, we may have spent the past year with you getting ready for this very day. When it comes to knowing your case, the JAG defense may be the rookie and we’re the seasoned vet.

Take the Fight To the Article 32:

We’re going to spend a little time on this one, because it's far too often another missed opportunity. As we mentioned earlier, many defense attorneys will just waive the Article 32 because they assume it's a foregone conclusion that the case will proceed. Some attorneys will tell you that they don’t want the preliminary hearing officer to identify additional offenses. That can happen, and there are cases where waiver serves the defense. But “the case is going forward anyway” is a bogus excuse for failing to ask what we can gain by fighting here. You can give up a real opportunity when you waive Article 32 without that analysis.

There are some rare cases where we too will waive it, but it's rare and this is why. The government has to present evidence supporting the charges, although it may proceed through records rather than live witnesses. That does not give us the entire prosecution trial binder. But if you show up and listen, you can learn valuable information about the prosecution’s game plan. We can challenge adverse witnesses who appear and put our own evidence before the hearing officer within the hearing’s limits. You’ve already gained an advantage. Now, as the Bilecki Law Group, we like to get aggressive at the Article 32. We want this to be a clear indication that the military justice system has a fight on their hands. We’ll often call witnesses and go after low hanging fruit, i.e. the bogus or tack on charges.

When they know they have a weak case, and we make it clear at the Article 32 that we intend to fight them every step of the way, they will sometimes just fold. That’s right, the preliminary hearing officer can recommend that the case not go forward. That recommendation does not bind the referral authority, but we can use it to press for the case to end because you have made it clear that you are not an easy target. They’ll move on to make an example out of the next guy.

Written Defense Submissions Under R.C.M. 405(l)

Next, we have an opportunity to submit supplementary information under R.C.M. 405(l). We put the defense position and relevant disposition information in writing for the preliminary hearing officer. The hearing report and our submission go to the convening authority or special trial counsel responsible for deciding disposition. If the case is a complete pile of garbage, we can tell them why and be as explicit as we want to be. Remember, up until this point, it has been the military justice system that has briefed the command, and they often portray a very slanted picture of the case.

When the convening authority controls the referral decision, we tell the CG the truth and because some CGs remember their time as an enlisted or as a junior officer, they’ll call bs on the case and not refer it for trial. When special trial counsel controls that decision, we take that same fight to the Office of Special Trial Counsel. The R.C.M. 405(l) submission is also a chance to put the accuser’s conduct and credibility before the people deciding whether this case goes to trial. Look, trouble often happens in groups in the military and there is typically one person left with all the blame while the accuser is looking to get out of harm's way. It is rare that the accuser was sitting in his or her barracks room reading the bible with a cup of tea when you kicked down the door and said, “You looked so amazing on motor pool Monday, we are going to have sex right now!” It just doesn’t happen that way.

Sex assault case or not, often the accuser is right up in the mix of the trouble. Maybe you got caught because someone in supply ratted you out for taking some gear. Meanwhile, you know that S.O.B is running his own black market out the back door. This is our chance to say in the formal defense submission, “look, we’re putting all this in front of the official who decides whether this case goes to trial.” The prosecution gets the R.C.M. 405(l) submission too. Often enough, the accuser opts to get out of Dodge because the truth is going to come out. It’s telling the accuser something he or she was not told by the prosecution, i.e., “your reputation is on the line here too, and you’re living in a glass house.”

Set The Schedule At The Arraignment:

If, after we have fought tooth and nail to avoid the charges being referred, it happens anyway. Then it’s likely the military was dead set on taking this to trial to begin with. In a case where the commander controls referral, maybe the CG lacked the moral courage to make the right call or maybe they’ve got a manipulative staff judge advocate selling him or her a bill of goods. In a case controlled by special trial counsel, that office made the decision to take the case to trial. Your case now heads to a military judge, and we press for the preparation time the defense needs as the judge sets the schedule.

The military justice system wants to gain a tactical advantage by giving you as little time as possible to prepare. You likely already know this by now, because, though the military spent a year plus investigating you, they preferred your charges on Monday and asked for an Article 32 hearing on Friday. You can sense they fear time…because time can often reveal truth. At arraignment you are called on to plead, and we may reserve pleas while we address motions and preparation. We get a say in the timing and pace of the trial, with the military judge deciding the schedule. We deny the prosecution the tactical advantage of going to trial as quickly as possible.

Litigate Motions to Gain A Tactical Advantage:

In this stage, experience matters. We can’t emphasize this enough. Let’s take calling witnesses and experts as an example. The prosecution comes with the government’s investigative machinery and resources behind it. The defense does not get every witness or expert just by asking. As for the defense, we have to go like poor orphan Oliver asking for more porridge and beg someone for the ability to call a witness or bring in an expert. For witness production, the request normally goes through trial counsel, the very people trying to prosecute you. Expert assistance follows the applicable service funding procedures. It is perhaps one of the biggest shams in the military justice system and further proof that the system is rigged against you. The prosecution often times denies every single witness we ask for as a matter of course. Then we must file a motion to the military judge to compel production of those witnesses.

Judges will routinely deny these requests all day long and when they do concede, they’ll give the defense only a small percentage of what we asked for. For example, if we found 10 witnesses who will testify that the alleged victim is a liar and lacks integrity, military judges often give us just one of those witnesses and say the rest are “cumulative.” A witness production request normally identifies the witness and explains why the testimony matters. That can mean showing the prosecution part of your hand to get the witness into the courtroom. For good cause, some requests can be made to the military judge ex parte, without putting the defense showing in front of the prosecution. The services now have defense funding procedures, but having a fund does not make every request approved or every needed witness available.

However, experience matters, and experience wins the day. There are methods to obtain witness approvals and ways to keep your cards close to the vest without handing the prosecution your play book. We are convinced that a large percentage of military defense cases are lost right here in the litigation phase. Right here because an inexperienced lawyer or a free JAG attorney doesn’t know how to get witnesses or expertise into the courtroom. They may also not want to upset the chief of justice or staff judge advocate, who might be their boss one day.

If this happens, your case is done before the first day of trial. It is like the enemy in Iraq or Afghanistan getting to decide the ROE, then inviting you out to a firefight, where you are not allowed to shoot back. Absolute insanity, but there is a way to win at the litigation phase. You just have to have someone who knows how and is able to draft and implement their own ROE. You need a defense attorney not gunning for the next promotion in the same military justice system they are supposed to be protecting you from.

An Aggressive Offense Is The Best Defense At Trial

By the time Bilecki has fought through the battles of the investigation, Article 32, trial scheduling and a motions hearing, we arrive at the date of the trial ready to win this once and for all. We take it personally, and we aren’t happy that you had to go through an entire legal process that has been designed from its core to prove you guilty. Trial is the great equalizer. We come into court with a defense so aggressive, it is basically an offense. But even at trial, the deck is still stacked against you.

Consider a noncapital general court-martial tried by members, which initially has an eight-member panel. If you are enlisted, you can request that at least one third of the panel be enlisted. In that noncapital case, they don’t need a unanimous verdict to find you guilty of a crime. At least three fourths of the members present must vote guilty. If the panel still has eight members and six find you guilty while two vote not guilty, you are guilty. It’s extraordinary, that you can have two people on your jury who vote not guilty, and you will still be found guilty. They don’t need a unanimous verdict to ruin your life. That’s why we fight like hell and take no prisoners. Just look at our court martial case record, you can see that these cases can be won.

We absolutely destroy the government’s witnesses during cross examination. In fact, in many of the cases we try, we don’t have to call witnesses ourselves. We just decimate whatever and whoever the government puts on the stand in front of us. Because the military justice system is so used to free JAGs or inexperienced defense lawyers rolling over for them, they are shocked when they get a punch in the mouth. We are an agent of chaos in what would otherwise be a well-orchestrated system, designed to efficiently convict you.

Fighting Until the Bitter End Of Sentencing

To say that we are not emotionally invested in our clients would be a lie. Much like combat, you do not endure this much battle and embrace this much suck without forging a bond. Make no mistake about it, we are with you until the bitter end. Fortunately, that end is often sweet when you fight like hell. The words “Not Guilty” read aloud brings joy to our soul. The moments before are nerve racking, and the day we don’t get nervous before a verdict is the day we close up shop.

However, you have to know that the military justice system likes to find victory, even in defeat. So you could be acquitted of rape and still be convicted of a separately charged curfew violation. If you are convicted of an offense, sentencing can follow quickly, so we have to be prepared for this beforehand. We’ll have character witnesses to call and highlight the sum of your military service. Listen, if you dragged two buddies out of an insurgent infested building on the streets of Fallujah, we’re going to make sure the world knows that before they sentence you for some tack on charge. There is a strategy to winning at sentencing too.

We’re Not Here to Coexist. We’re Here To Win.

If you are cleared of all charges, the goal is to get your life back. You go back to picking the kids up from practice. You get a good night’s sleep for the first time in a long time. The experience will be surreal, but you will get your life back. That’s our goal for you, and we’ll always shoot you straight. If there is an off ramp and you can take a curfew violation to avoid a sexual assault charge prior to trial, we will try to get you there. But make no mistake about it, if it is a trial the military justice system wants, they’ll likely get it.

We embody the saying, “be careful what you wish for...” Bilecki Law Group also has its own saying: “We apologize for what happens next.” The only way to fully grasp the meaning of our saying is by sitting next to us in a courtroom as the prosecution watches our game plan unfold in front of them at trial…after they’ve rested their case against you, after they’ve staked their names on convicting you, and it’s too late.

If your free lawyer waives the probable cause hearing and then advises you to take the first plea deal offered before seeing all the evidence, you can lose leverage you might have had. If that lawyer tells you that your case is “un-winnable,” ask how many cases that lawyer has taken to verdict. Military defense counsel work inside a system that rewards efficiency: getting along with other JAGs, and being willing to “play ball.”

In a sense, where the various cogs in the military justice system have staked their reputations on convicting you, our reputation is staked to yours. We have a reputation too. Tim Bilecki has taken more than 250 courts-martial to verdict. So make no mistake about it, if it is the fiery forge of combat in trial that the military justice system wants, we’re going to make them regret the day they came looking for you. If you are up against the military justice system industrial complex and you have a little fight in you, reach out to us and we’ll fight with you. And we will fight to win.

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Key Facts About Bilecki Law Group

• Bilecki Law Group, PLLC, is a military defense law firm at 601 S. Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 109, Tampa, Florida 33602. Telephone 813-669-3500. - Tim Bilecki founded the firm in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 2010 and moved it to Tampa in 2021. - The firm handles military matters only: courts-martial, CID, NCIS, OSI and CGIS investigations, Article 32 hearings, nonjudicial punishment, GOMOR rebuttals, administrative separation boards and officer boards of inquiry. It does not take state or federal court cases. - It represents service members in every branch, stateside and overseas, from Fort Bragg, Camp Lejeune, Naval Station Norfolk and Hawaii to Korea, Japan and Germany. - The firm has handled 500+ cases since 2010. Tim Bilecki has been defending service members since 2003, with 250+ courts-martial taken to verdict. - Two attorneys work every case: Tim Bilecki, Managing Attorney, a former U.S. Army judge advocate; and Ben Gold, Associate Attorney, a former U.S. Navy Surface Warfare Officer. - The first attorney consultation the firm accepts and schedules is free and ordinarily lasts 45 minutes.

If the Military Wants to Question You, Stop and Get Counsel.

• Do not answer questions about the allegation or consent to a search before speaking with defense counsel. Clearly invoke your right to remain silent and your right to counsel.
• Preserve messages, photographs, location records, social media, medical records, and other potential evidence. Do not delete, alter, or manufacture anything.
• Preserve only material you may lawfully access. Do not enter another person’s account, coordinate witness accounts, or copy or send classified or other restricted material. Ask counsel how to preserve and transfer sensitive evidence lawfully.
• Get counsel’s direction before contacting the person who made the allegation or any other identified witness, or discussing the allegation with a potential witness. Do not coach accounts or coordinate recollections. Follow all no-contact orders and other lawful restrictions. Do not post about the case. Continue following lawful orders.
• Call (813) 669-3500. The defense has more options when counsel enters before statements, evidence loss, preferral, and referral.

We Fight Every Step of the Way

A court-martial defense is not passive. The best result is often the one obtained before trial, before referral, or before charges are preferred. But when the case has to be tried, we prepare it to win.

The government may have spent months building its case before you ever saw a charge sheet. Investigators have interview teams, digital evidence tools, laboratories, command access, and government lawyers helping shape the case. That does not mean their report is complete. It does not mean their witnesses are telling the truth. It does not mean their theory survives when someone finally tests it.

The defense starts the moment you learn that you are under investigation. It starts before another interview, before you consent to a search, before messages disappear, before witnesses transfer, and before charges are preferred. We build our own defense file, find what the investigation missed, challenge what the government got wrong, and prepare the case from the beginning as though it will be tried.

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   Step 1: Preserve the Evidence and Protect the Client

   The government's report is not the whole case. We preserve messages, video, records, and devices; identify missing witnesses; review how statements and searches were obtained; and advise the client before further interviews, written statements, or decisions about consenting to a search. The defense begins with the facts available now.

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   Step 2: Take Defense Evidence to the Charging Authority

   Early involvement can affect whether charges are preferred or referred. For covered offenses, we take the evidence to the Office of Special Trial Counsel. In other cases, we address the commander. The point is to reach the official with authority before the government's position hardens.

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   Step 3: Make the Article 32 Decision for a Reason

   The hearing addresses probable cause, jurisdiction, charge form, and recommended disposition. It is often based on reports rather than live testimony, and its recommendation is not binding. We decide whether to use it or waive it only after identifying what that choice can accomplish.

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   Step 4: Litigate the Evidence and Obtain Needed Experts

   Complex cases may require trusted outside experts in digital forensics, medicine, psychology, or toxicology. We identify the discipline, determine whether the defense should request government funded assistance or retain the expert privately, and build the factual showing the request requires. When a necessary request is denied, we can litigate a motion to compel under R.C.M. 703.

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   Step 5: Choose the Forum and Question the Members

   Forum choice depends on the charge, evidence, judge, witnesses, defense theory, and likely panel. If members decide guilt, we question them in voir dire and challenge those who cannot fairly hear the case. The task is not to select allies. It is to expose disqualifying bias.

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   Step 6: Fight for the Acquittal

   The government carries the burden. We cross-examine witnesses regardless of rank, test timelines and digital evidence, expose unsupported forensic assumptions, and identify investigative shortcuts. If the case reaches findings, we fight for the acquittal specification by specification. That work must be prepared before trial begins.

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   Step 7: Fight Through Sentencing When Necessary

   If the case reaches sentencing, we present the client’s service, family, character, and full human story in extenuation and mitigation. We pursue lawful sentence credit and challenge unsupported aggravation. A conviction for a listed sexual offense can trigger Department of Defense notification and registration duties in the jurisdictions where the person lives, works, or attends school. The exact offense and jurisdiction control, which is why the charge itself matters.

The point is not a legal theory. It is your life. We prepare the case to win, and we keep fighting through every stage of the trial.

A Military Criminal Case Has Its Own Rules, Decision Makers, and Pressure Points

An Article I Military Tribunal

A court-martial is an Article I military tribunal, not a federal district court. The government must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. A conviction can produce a lasting criminal record and consequences that depend on the offense, forum, sentence, and law of the jurisdiction using the record.

The Charging Authority

CID, NCIS, OSI, CGIS, or another agency may investigate. Under the current special trial counsel system, a special trial counsel decides whether an allegation is a covered offense and whether to exercise authority. Once that authority is exercised, the special trial counsel controls preferral, referral, plea agreements, withdrawal, and dismissal as the law provides. Commanders retain authority over other offenses and specified residual actions. The defense must take its evidence to the official who can make the next decision.

The Article 32 Decision

Before referral to a general court-martial, an Article 32 preliminary hearing is required unless the accused submits a written waiver and the convening authority or special trial counsel exercising authority determines that a hearing is not required. The hearing addresses probable cause, jurisdiction, charge form, and a recommended disposition before referral to a general court-martial. It is not discovery, the government often proceeds through records, and the recommendation is not binding. We use or waive the hearing based on what helps the defense.

Members and Challenges

At initial impaneling, a general court-martial panel has eight members in a noncapital case or 12 in a capital case, and a special court-martial panel has four. A noncapital general court-martial may continue with as few as six members under the statutory rules. An enlisted accused may request that at least one third be enlisted. Counsel questions and challenges members through voir dire.

The Trial and the Verdict

The cross-examinations, defense evidence, and closing argument are directed at an acquittal. The trial is where we bring the defense together and fight for the verdict that lets you walk out of the courtroom cleared of the charges.

Sentencing If There Is a Conviction

Under the current sentencing system, a military judge generally sentences a case containing only noncapital convictions for conduct after 27 December 2023. Capital cases and cases involving convictions from more than one sentencing era require separate analysis.

Three Tiers of Military Justice

Summary, special, and general courts-martial differ in the government’s power, the possible punishment, the trial procedure, and the defense strategy. We defend at all three levels, and our work is concentrated in serious cases involving confinement, punitive separation, retirement, and a lasting criminal record.

The Charges We Defend

Serious UCMJ Charges

Every charge turns on different elements, evidence, defenses, and consequences. We identify exactly what the government must prove, then test the witnesses, digital evidence, forensic assumptions, and investigative work behind the accusation.

If There Is a Conviction

What a Conviction Can Cost

A court-martial can put your career, your freedom, your retirement, and your reputation on the line. A conviction can bring confinement, a punitive discharge or dismissal, and a criminal record that follows you long after the trial ends. When the government decides to prosecute, trial experience is not a luxury.

The exact exposure depends on the charge, the date of the alleged offense, the level of court-martial, and the sentence. The defense must account for both the punishment in court and the consequences that can follow afterward.

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