Guam § 63720 - Unlawfully Influencing Action of Court.

§ 63720. 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, may 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 functions in the conduct of the proceeding. No person

subject to this Code may attempt to coerce or, by any 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 judicial acts. The

foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not apply with respect to 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 instructions given in open court by the military judge, president of a special court-martial,

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 Guam military forces is

qualified to be advanced, in grade, or in determining the assignment or transfer of a member of the Guam

military forces or in determining whether a member should be retained in the Guam military forces, no

person subject to this Code may, in preparing any such report

(1) consider or evaluate the performance of duty of any such member of a court-martial, or

(2) give a less favorable rating or evaluation of any member of the Guam military forces because

of the zeal with which such member, as counsel, represented any accused before a court-martial.