convening authority

常见例句

From the court-martial itself, the case goes to the convening authority, the officer who called the court into being.
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The Uniform Code of Military Justice gives a convening authority the "sole discretion" to reduce or set aside guilty verdicts and sentences, or to reverse a jury's verdict.
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