Okla. Stat. tit. 44, § 44-837
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Unlawfully influencing action of court
Official statutory text
ARTICLE 37. Unlawfully influencing action of court.
A. No authority convening a general, special, or summary court-
martial nor any other commanding officer, or officer serving on the
staff thereof, shall censure, reprimand, or admonish the court or
any member, military judge, or counsel thereof, with respect to the
findings or sentence adjudged by the court, or with respect to any
other exercise of its or his or her functions in the conduct of the
proceeding. No person subject to the Oklahoma Uniform Code of
Military Justice shall attempt to coerce or, by an unauthorized
means, influence the action of the court-martial or any other
military tribunal or any member thereof, in reaching the findings or
sentence in any case, or the action of any convening, approving, or
reviewing authority with respect to his or her judicial acts. The
foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not apply with respect
to:
1. General instructional or informational courses in military
justice if such courses are designed solely for the purpose of
instructing members of a command in the substantive and procedural
aspects of courts-martial; or
2. To statements and instructions given in open court by the
military judge or counsel.
B. In the preparation of an effectiveness, fitness, or
efficiency report or any other report or document used in whole or
in part for the purpose of determining whether a member of the state
military forces is qualified to be advanced in grade, or in
determining the assignment or transfer of a member of the state
military forces, or in determining whether a member of the state
military forces should be retained, no person subject to the Code
may, in preparing any such report:
1. Consider or evaluate the performance of duty of any such
member as a member of a court-martial; or
2. Give a less favorable rating or evaluation of any member of
the state military forces because of the zeal with which such
member, as counsel, represented any accused before a court-martial.
A. No authority convening a general, special, or summary court-
martial nor any other commanding officer, or officer serving on the
staff thereof, shall censure, reprimand, or admonish the court or
any member, military judge, or counsel thereof, with respect to the
findings or sentence adjudged by the court, or with respect to any
other exercise of its or his or her functions in the conduct of the
proceeding. No person subject to the Oklahoma Uniform Code of
Military Justice shall attempt to coerce or, by an unauthorized
means, influence the action of the court-martial or any other
military tribunal or any member thereof, in reaching the findings or
sentence in any case, or the action of any convening, approving, or
reviewing authority with respect to his or her judicial acts. The
foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not apply with respect
to:
1. General instructional or informational courses in military
justice if such courses are designed solely for the purpose of
instructing members of a command in the substantive and procedural
aspects of courts-martial; or
2. To statements and instructions given in open court by the
military judge or counsel.
B. In the preparation of an effectiveness, fitness, or
efficiency report or any other report or document used in whole or
in part for the purpose of determining whether a member of the state
military forces is qualified to be advanced in grade, or in
determining the assignment or transfer of a member of the state
military forces, or in determining whether a member of the state
military forces should be retained, no person subject to the Code
may, in preparing any such report:
1. Consider or evaluate the performance of duty of any such
member as a member of a court-martial; or
2. Give a less favorable rating or evaluation of any member of
the state military forces because of the zeal with which such
member, as counsel, represented any accused before a court-martial.
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