Presidential Actions

Prescription of Method of Designating a Member of the Military Sentencing Parameters and Criteria Board

SignedJune 21, 2022
Memorandum·Joe Biden·Military Justice
Why This Matters

This memorandum establishes the method for designating members of the Military Sentencing Parameters and Criteria Board, ensuring representation from the Navy and Marine Corps trial judges.

It aims to improve the fairness and consistency of military sentencing by ensuring that judges from both branches are included in the decision-making process.
Military trial judges and personnel within the Navy and Marine Corps are most affected by this order.
Summary

1. Designates Navy trial judges to the Military Sentencing Parameters and Criteria Board if not already included. 2. Ensures Marine Corps trial judges are appointed to the Board when necessary. 3. Establishes regulations as required by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022.

Who is affected?

Military trial judges and personnel within the Navy and Marine Corps are most affected by this order.

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Memorandum of June 21, 2022

Prescription of Method of Designating a Member of the Military Sentencing Parameters and Criteria Board

Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 539E(e)(4)(B) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, Public Law 117-81, 135 Stat. 1541, 1700 (2021), I hereby order as follows:

(1) If the chief trial judges designated under article 26(g) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. 826(g), do not include a trial judge of the Navy, then the Judge Advocate General of the Navy shall designate as a voting member of the Military Sentencing Parameters and Criteria Board (Board) either the Chief Judge of the Department of the Navy or a Navy trial judge assigned to the Navy and Marine Corps Trial Judiciary.

(2) If the chief trial judges designated under article 26(g) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. 826(g), do not include a trial judge of the Marine Corps, then the Staff Judge Advocate to the Commandant of the Marine Corps, in consultation with the Judge Advocate General of the Navy, shall designate as a voting member of the Board a Marine Corps trial judge assigned to the Navy and Marine Corps Trial Judiciary.

This memorandum constitutes the regulations provided for in subsections (ii) and (iii) of section 539E(e)(4)(B) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022.

You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

[FR Doc. 2022-13719

Filed 6-23-22; 11:15 am]

Billing code 5001-06-P

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