a military officer with legal training who has the mixed duties of giving advice
on legal matters to the group of officers sitting as a court-martial (both judge
and jury) and acting as the prosecutor of the accused serviceman or woman. A judge
advocate holds responsibility to protect the accused from procedural improprieties
such as questions from the members of the court which might incriminate the accused
in violation of the Constitution. The accused person also has a military officer
as counsel, who may not be an attorney.
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